Breast cancer risk and drinking water contaminated by wastewater: A case control study

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

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

^a Silent Spring Institute   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; DRINKING WATER; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; NITRATE; PESTICIDE; TAP WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOGENS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33750322849     PISSN: 1476069X     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-5-28     Document Type: Article

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