Residential traffic density and childhood leukemia risk

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2298-2301

  Von Behren, Julie ^a,d   Reynolds, Peggy ^a,b   Gunier, Robert B ^a   Rull, Rudolph P ^a,b   Hertz, Andrew ^a   Urayama, Kevin Y ^a   Kronish, Daniel ^c   Buffler, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^d NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC;

ADOLESCENT; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 53349127461     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0338     Document Type: Article

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