Chlororganic pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in breast tissue of women with benign and malignant breast disease

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 140-147

  Guttes S ^a   Failing, K ^b   Neumann, K ^c   Kleinstein, J ^b   Georgii, S ^a   Brunn, H ^a  

^a Staatliches Medizinal   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CAPILLARY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; CARCINOGENESIS; CHLORINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DDT; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; DICHLORODIPHENYLDICHLOROETHANE; FEMALE; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; LINDANE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

EID: 0345055319     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002449900361     Document Type: Article

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