Occupational Exposures to Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Fields and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 643-652

  Labrèche, France ^a,d   Goldberg, Mark S ^b   Valois, Marie France ^b   Nadon, Louise ^c   Richardson, Lesley ^c   Lakhani, Ramzan ^c   Latreille, Benoit ^c  

^a Montreal Public Health Department   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

^d Public Health Department of Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case control study; Exposure assessment; Extremely low frequency magnetic fields; Occupational exposure; Postmenopausal breast cancer; Progesterone positive tumors

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RISK; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; LIFESPAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORKLOAD;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 17444442207     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.10264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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