Association of pesticide exposure and risk of breast cancer mortality in Mississippi

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 39, Issue , 2003, Pages 397-401

  Abdalla, Mohamed H ^a   Gutierrez Mohamed, Mary Lou ^b   Farah, Ibrahim O ^a  

^a Jackson State University   (United States)

^b JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer mortality; Endocrine disruptors; Organochlorines; Pesticides; State economic area

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; ONCOLOGY; PESTICIDES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BREAST CANCER;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

PESTICIDE;

AGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MISSISSIPPI; PESTICIDES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 0346037272     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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