Association between chronic exposure to pesticides and recorded cases of human malignancy in Gaza Governorates (1990-1999)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 284, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 75-84

  Safi, Jamal M ^a,b  

^a AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b Palestinian National Authority   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chronic exposure; Epidemiolgy; Human malignancy; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENS; CORRELATION METHODS; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HERBICIDES; HOSPITALS; INSECTICIDES; PESTICIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOXIC MATERIALS; TUMORS;

HUMAN MALIGNANCY;

TOXICITY;

PESTICIDE;

CANCER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAW; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTICENTER STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PALESTINE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER; THYROID CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; NEOPLASMS; PESTICIDES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0037016850     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(01)00868-3     Document Type: Article

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