Cooking and uveal melanoma risk: Results from two German case - Control studies

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 377-380

  Stang, Andreas ^a   Ahrens, Wolfgang ^a,b   Baumgardt Elms, Cornelia ^c   Stegmaier, Christa ^d   Bornfeld, Norbert ^a   Schmidt Pokrzywniak, Andrea ^a   Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY BIPS   (Germany)

^c Hamburg Cancer Registry   (Germany)

^d SAARLAND CANCER REGISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Cookery; Eye neoplasms; Food processing industry; Germany; Occupations; Uveal melanoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKING; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOOD PROCESSING; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PATIENT CODING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UVEA MELANOMA;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COOKERY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038039264     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023912232258     Document Type: Article

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