A cancer risk assessment of inner-city teenagers living in New York City and Los Angeles

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1558-1566

  Sax, Sonja N ^a   Bennett, Deborah H ^b   Chillrud, Steven N ^c   Ross, James ^c   Kinney, Patrick L ^d   Spengler, John D ^e  

^a GRADIENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d Harvard School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aldehydes; Cancer risk assessment; Metals; Personal Exposures; VOCs

Indexed keywords

1,4 DICHLOROBENZENE; ACETALDEHYDE; ALDEHYDE; ARSENIC; BENZENE; BERYLLIUM; CHLOROFORM; CHROMIUM; FORMALDEHYDE; NICKEL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; NEOPLASMS; NEW YORK CITY; PARTICLE SIZE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33749430269     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8507     Document Type: Article

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