Trends in Childhood Cancer Incidence: Review of Environmental Linkages

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 177-203

  Buka, Irena ^a,b   Koranteng, Samuel ^a   Osornio Vargas, Alvaro R ^c  

^a Misericordia Community Hospital   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CANCEROLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; ALKYLATING AGENT; AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; ANTHRACYCLINONE DERIVATIVE; BENZENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BIOFLAVONOID; CANNABIS; CARCINOGEN; CYTOCHROME P450; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DIOXIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE INHIBITOR; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; HYDROCARBON; IODINE; IODINE 131; NITROGEN OXIDE; PAINT; PESTICIDE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUND; THINNER; TOBACCO SMOKE; TRIHALOMETHANE; TURPENTINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE NONLYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIR POLLUTION; ASIA; ATOMIC BOMB; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; BONE CANCER; BREAST FEEDING; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EUROPE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GENOTOXICITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IODINE DEFICIENCY; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; METASTASIS; MUTAGENICITY; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; THYROID CANCER; TINEA CAPITIS; TUMOR GENE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UNITED STATES; VAGINA CANCER; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA; NEOPLASMS; PESTICIDES; RADON; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 33846898805     PISSN: 00313955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2006.11.010     Document Type: Review

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