Gliomas and farm pesticide exposure in women: The Upper Midwest Health Study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 546-551

  Carreón, Tania ^a   Butler, Mary Ann ^a   Ruder, Avima M ^a   Waters, Martha A ^a   Davis King, Karen E ^a   Calvert, Geoffrey M ^a   Schulte, Paul A ^a   Connally, Barbara ^a   Ward, Elizabeth M ^a   Sanderson, Wayne T ^a   Heineman, Ellen F ^b   Mandel, Jack S ^c   Morton, Roscoe F ^d   Reding, Douglas J ^e   Rosenman, Kenneth D ^f   Talaska, Glenn ^g  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d Mercy Foundation   (United States)

^e MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain cancer; Case control; Farmers; Glioma; Midwest; Pesticides; Women

Indexed keywords

ACETANILIDE DERIVATIVE; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; BENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLOTHING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; ODDS RATIO; RURAL POPULATION; WISCONSIN;

EID: 21044431736     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7456     Document Type: Article

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