Organochlorine pesticide content of breast adipose tissue from women with breast cancer and control subjects

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 750-751

  Bagga, Dilprit ^a   Anders, Karl H ^b   Wang, He Jing ^a   Roberts, Erika ^a   Glaspy, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHANE; 1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CHLORPHENOTANE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE LEVEL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DDT; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; DICHLORODIPHENYLDICHLOROETHANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0034600259     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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