Cancer incidence near oilfields in the Amazon basin of Ecuador revisited [1]

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 490-

  Arana, Alejandro ^a   Arellano, Felix M ^b,c  

^a Risk Management Resources   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; DATA BASE; DISEASE CONTROL; ECUADOR; HUMAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; OIL INDUSTRY; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CENSUSES; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PETROLEUM;

EID: 34347388010     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2006.031260     Document Type: Letter

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