Sarcoma risk and dioxin emissions from incinerators and industrial plants: A population-based case-control study (Italy)

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Zambon, Paola ^a,b   Ricci, Paolo ^c   Bovo, Emanuela ^a   Casula, Alessandro ^d   Gattolin, Massimo ^d   Fiore, Anna Rita ^a   Chiosi, Francesco ^d   Guzzinati, Stefano ^a  

^a VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Unit of Epidemiology   (Italy)

^d Department of Environment ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCINERATION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLLUTION; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; SARCOMA; AIR POLLUTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; INDUSTRY; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCINERATION; INDUSTRY; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOMA;

EID: 34547914817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-6-19     Document Type: Article

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