Agricultural pesticide use, familial cancer, and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 525-531

  Chiu, Brian C H ^a   Weisenburger, Dennis D ^b   Zahm, Shelia Hoar ^c   Cantor, Kenneth P ^c   Gapstur, Susan M ^a   Holmes, Frederick ^d   Burmeister, Leon F ^e   Blair, Aaron ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; FUNGICIDE; HAIR DYE; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FAMILY STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IOWA; KANSAS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; NEBRASKA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 2942548955     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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