Population-based research on occupational and environmental factors for leukemia and non Hodgkin's lymphoma: The Northern Germany Leukemia and Lymphoma Study (NLL)

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 246-257

  Hoffmann, W ^a   Terschueren C ^a   Heimpel, H ^e   Feller, A ^f   Butte, W ^d   Hostrup, O ^d   Richardson, D ^b   Greiser, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case control study; Germany; Leukemia; Non Hodgkin's lymphoma; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CATERING SERVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EMPLOYMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GERMANY; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POPULATION RESEARCH; SELF REPORT; WORK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DUST; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PESTICIDES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 40949085678     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20551     Document Type: Article

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