Polychlorinated biphenyls and risk of testicular germ cell tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1901-1909

  McGlynn, Katherine A ^a   Quraishi, Sabah M ^a   Graubard, Barry I ^a   Weber, Jean Philippe ^b   Rubertone, Mark V ^c   Erickson, Ralph L ^d  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c US Anny Center for Health Promotion   (United States)

^d WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; 1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; HYPOSPADIAS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; RISK; TESTIS TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RISK; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 62449316224     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-3935     Document Type: Article

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