Residential proximity to agricultural pesticide use and incidence of breast cancer in California, 1988-1997

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 993-1000

  Reynolds, Peggy ^a   Hurley, Susan E ^b   Gunier, Robert B ^a   Yerabati, Sauda ^c   Quach, Thu ^c   Hertz, Andrew ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c IMPACT ASSESSMENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Geographic information system; Incidence; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL HOME; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGROCHEMICALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOUSING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PESTICIDES;

EID: 23844460171     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7765     Document Type: Review

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