Childhood leukaemia and ordnance factories in west Cumbria during the Second World War

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 102-106

  Kinlen, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhood; Construction; Epidemiology; Infection; Leukaemia; Population mixing; Rural; Wartime

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONSTRUCTION WORK; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIGRANT WORKER; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN POPULATION; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENGLAND; EXPLOSIVE AGENTS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 33745577154     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603199     Document Type: Article

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