Pesticide exposure and risk of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance in the Agricultural Health Study

Blood

Volumn 113, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 6386-6391

  Landgren, Ola ^a   Kyle, Robert A ^b   Hoppin, Jane A ^c   Beane Freeman, Laura E ^a   Cerhan, James R ^b   Katzmann, Jerry A ^b   Rajkumar, S Vincent ^b   Alavanja, Michael C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DISULFIDE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLOROTHALONIL; DIELDRIN; PESTICIDE; NITRILE;

ADULT; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; AGE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PARAPROTEINEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; BLOOD PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; CARBON DISULFIDE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; COHORT STUDIES; DIELDRIN; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; HUMANS; IOWA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRILES; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARAPROTEINEMIAS; PESTICIDES; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 67650621407     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2009-02-203471     Document Type: Article

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