Breast cancer risk and historical exposure to pesticides from wide-area apllications assessed with GIS

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 889-897

  Brody, Julia Green ^a   Aschengrau, Ann ^b   McKelvey, Wendy ^a   Rudel, Ruthann A ^a   Swartz, Christopher H ^a   Kennedy, Theresa ^a  

^a SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Breast cancer; Endocrine disrupting compound; Geographic information system; Organochlorine; Pesticide; Reisdential exposure

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; PESTICIDE;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANBERRY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GYPSY MOTH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOSQUITO; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ANIMALIA; GADUS MORHUA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; VACCINIUM MACROCARPON;

EID: 3042684565     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6845     Document Type: Article

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