Breast cancer incidence and its possible spatial association with pesticide application in two counties of England

Public Health

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 513-520

  Muir, Kenneth ^a   Rattanamongkolgul, S ^a   Smallman Raynor, M ^a   Thomas, M ^b   Downer, S ^a   Jenkinson, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Clustering; Ecological study; Mapping; Pesticides; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

ALDICARB; ATRAZINE; CYANAZINE; LINDANE; PESTICIDE;

CANCER; HEALTH IMPACT; PESTICIDE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PESTICIDES;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LEICESTERSHIRE; LINCOLNSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 4544275426     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2003.12.019     Document Type: Article

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