Household pesticides and the risk of Wilms tumor

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 134-137

  Cooney, Maureen A ^a   Daniels, Julie L ^a   Ross, Julie A ^b   Breslow, Norman E ^c   Pollock, Brad H ^d   Olshan, Andrew F ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood cancer; Enviroment; Pediatric pesticides; Wilms tumor

Indexed keywords

FUNGICIDE; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE; RODENTICIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CANADA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MOTHERS; ODDS RATIO; PESTICIDES; UNITED STATES; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 33845966757     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9298     Document Type: Article

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