Is breast cancer cluster influenced by environmental and occupational factors among hospital nurses in Hungary

Pathology and Oncology Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-121

  Tompa, Anna ^a   Major, Jeno ^a   Jakab, Mátyás G ^a  

^a Natl Institute of Chemical Safety   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Ethylene oxide; Exchange aberrations; Genotoxicology monitoring; Ionizing radiation; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOGENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTOXICITY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUNGARY; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032782927     PISSN: 12194956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/paor.1999.0182     Document Type: Article

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