How much does the environment contribute to cancer?

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Rushton, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037311223     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.2.150     Document Type: Review

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