Sunlight and mortality from breast, ovarian, colon, prostate, and non-melanoma skin cancer: A composite death certificate based case-control study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 257-262

  Freedman, D M ^a   Dosemeci, M ^a   McGlynn, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARY CANCER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SKIN CANCER; SOCIAL STATUS; SUNLIGHT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036226287     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.59.4.257     Document Type: Article

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