Treatment for breast cancer and blood levels of chlorinated hydrocarbons

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 467-471

  Gammon, Marilie D ^a   Wolff, Mary S ^b   Neugut, Alfred I ^a,c   Terry, Mary Beth ^a   Britton, Julie A ^a   Greenebaum, Ellen ^d   Hibshoosh, Hanina ^d   Levin, Bruce ^a   Wang, Qiao ^a   Santella, Regina M ^a  

^a School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^d New York State Psychiat Inst and New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

EID: 19144373281     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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