Pesticide product use and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in women

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1275-1281

  Kato, Ikuko ^a,e   Watanabe Meserve, Hiroko ^a   Koenig, Karen L ^a   Baptiste, Mark S ^b   Lillquist, Patricia P ^b   Frizzera, Glauco ^c,f   Burke, Jerome S ^d   Moseson, Miriam ^a   Shore, Roy E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ALTA BATES SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control study; Mothballs; NHL; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC CHEMICAL; HERBICIDE; NAPHTHALENE; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; ODDS RATIO; PESTICIDES; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 4644301619     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7070     Document Type: Article

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