Environmental risk factors and female breast cancer

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 19, Issue , 1998, Pages 101-123

  Laden, Francine ^a,b   Hunter, David J ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR CANCER PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Clusters; EMF; Environment; Geographic variation; Ionizing radiation; Organochlorine; Passive smoking

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; CHLORDECONE; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIOXIN; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; MELATONIN; MIREX; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; TOBACCO SMOKE;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INCIDENCE; INSECTICIDES; RADIATION, IONIZING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031865954     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.19.1.101     Document Type: Review

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