Residential water source and the risk of childhood brain tumors

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 551-556

  Mueller, B A ^a   Newton, K ^a   Holly, E A ^a   Preston Martin, S ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood brain tumors; Drinking water; Environmental exposures; Nitrates; Nitrites

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DRINKING WATER; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROSO DERIVATIVE; TAP WATER; WATER; WELL WATER;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0035355135     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109551     Document Type: Article

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