Domestic and farm-animal exposures and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in a population-based study in the San Francisco Bay Area

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2382-2387

  Tranah, Gregory J ^a   Bracci, Paige M ^b   Holly, Elizabeth A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FARM ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SAN FRANCISCO;

EID: 53349156583     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0373     Document Type: Article

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