Geographic risk modeling of childhood cancer relative to county-level crops, hazardous air pollutants and population density characteristics in Texas

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Thompson, James A ^a   Carozza, Susan E ^a   Zhu, Li ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; GLIOMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORBIDITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CROP; DANGEROUS GOODS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIR POLLUTANTS; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION DENSITY; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEXAS;

EID: 54449094801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-7-45     Document Type: Article

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