Unexplained cancer clusters: Common threads

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 172-176

  Zeliger, Harold I ^a,b  

^a Zeliger Chemical Environmental and Toxicological Services   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer clusters; Chemical mixtures; Childhood leukemia

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AGENT; OCTANOL; WATER;

ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER CLUSTER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HYDROPHILICITY; LIPOPHILICITY; MULTIPLE CANCER; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARCINOGENS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 24944561090     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/AEOH.59.4.172-176     Document Type: Article

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