Cancer mortality in an area of Campania (Italy) characterized by multiple toxic dumping sites

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1076, Issue , 2006, Pages 449-461

  Comba, Pietro ^a   Bianchi, Fabrizio ^b,f   Fazzo, Lucia ^a   Martina, Lucia ^c,g   Menegozzo, Massimo ^d   Minichilli, Fabrizio ^b,f   Mitis, Francesco ^e   Musmeci, Loredana ^a   Pizzuti, Renato ^c,g   Santoro, Michele ^c,g   Trinca, Stefania ^a   Martuzzi, Marco ^e   Bertollini, R ^e   Carboni, C ^a   Cossa, L ^a   De Nardo, P ^a   Linzalone, N ^f   Pierini, A ^f   Lorenzo, E ^g   Lionetti, E ^d   Fusco, M ^h   Scarano, G ⁱ   Menegozzo, S ^j   Doddi, G ^k   Leonardi, M ^k   Madeo, L ^k   Martini, G ^k   Mazzei, N ^k   Pizzi, R ^k   Savarese, A ^l   Bove, C ^m   D'Argenzio, A ⁿ   Simonetti, A ^o   Parlato, A ^p   Peluso, F ^q   Palombino, R ^r   Giugliano, F ^s   more..

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c Campania Region Health Authority Regional Epidemiological Observatory   (Italy)

^d Campania Region Environmental Protection Agency   (Italy)

^e WHO European Centre for Environment and Health   (Italy)

^f NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

^g Campania Region Health Authority   (Italy)

^h Naples Cancer Registry   (Italy)

ⁱ Campania Region Birth Defects Registry   (Italy)

^j Campania Region Mesothelioma Registry   (Italy)

^k Campania Region Birth Defects Registry ^*

^l Legambiente Campania   (Italy)

^m Local Health Unit Caserta1

ⁿ Local Health Unit Caserta2

^o Local Health Unit Naples1

^p Local Health Unit Naples2   (Italy)

^q Local Health Unit Naples3

^r Local Health Unit Naples4

^s Local Health Unit Naples5

more..

Author keywords

Cancer; Dumping sites; Malformations; Toxic wastes

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DUMPING; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ITALY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; RESIDENTIAL HOME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOXIC WASTE;

EID: 33845639175     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1371.067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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