Increase of wildlife cancer: An echo of plastic pollution?

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 842-

  Erren, Thomas ^a   Zeuß, Dominique ^a   Steffany, Frank ^a   Meyer Rochow, Benno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ESTROGEN; PLASTIC;

ANIMAL DISEASE; BREAST CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LETTER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; VIRUS ONCOGENE; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; NEOPLASMS; PLASTICS;

EID: 70350564323     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2665-c1     Document Type: Letter

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