The UK Childhood Cancer Study: Maternal occupational exposures and childhood leukaemia and lymphoma

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 232-240

  Mckinney, Patricia A ^a   Raji, Olaide Y ^a   Van Tongeren, Martie ^b   Feltbower, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58649088031     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncn265     Document Type: Article

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