Exposure to traffic emissions throughout life and risk of breast cancer: The Western New York Exposures and Breast Cancer (WEB) study

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 947-955

  Nie, Jing ^a   Beyea, Jan ^b   Bonner, Matthew R ^a   Han, Daikwon ^a   Vena, John E ^c   Rogerson, Peter ^a   Vito, Dominica ^a   Muti, Paola ^d   Trevisan, Maurizio ^a   Edge, Stephen B ^e   Freudenheim, Jo L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Senior Scientist Emeritus   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^e ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Lifecourse; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); Traffic emissions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; ODDS RATIO; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PREMENOPAUSE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34547741104     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-007-9036-2     Document Type: Article

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