Pesticide exposure: Human cancers on the horizon

Reviews on Environmental Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-50

  Jaga, Kushik ^a,b   Brosius, Denton ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adipose tissue; Breast milk; Cancer; DDE; DDT toxicity; Environment; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; PESTICIDE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD; BREAST CANCER; BREAST MILK; CANCER RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LIFESTYLE; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TOXICITY TESTING;

EID: 0032867889     PISSN: 00487554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVEH.1999.14.1.39     Document Type: Review

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