Organochlorines and breast cancer risk

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 301-309

  Calle, Eugenia E ^a   Frumkin, Howard ^b   Jane Henley, S ^a   Savitz, David A ^c   Thun, Michael J ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIOXIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IN VITRO STUDY; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LIVER TOXICITY; MOUSE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SKIN DEFECT; THYROID DISEASE;

EID: 0036756654     PISSN: 00079235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.52.5.301     Document Type: Article

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