Prediagnostic serum concentrations of organochlorine compounds and risk of testicular germ cell tumors

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1514-1519

  Purdue, Mark P ^a   Engel, Lawrence S ^b   Langseth, Hilde ^c   Needham, Larry L ^d   Andersen, Aage ^c   Barr, Dana B ^d   Blair, Aaron ^a   Rothman, Nathaniel ^a   McGlynn, Katherine A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlordanes; Organochlorine compounds; P,p dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethylene; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Testicular germ cell tumors

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; 1,1,1 TRICHLORO 2 (2 CHLOROPHENYL) 2 (4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHANE; BETA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIELDRIN; HEPTACHLOR EPOXIDE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; MIREX; NONACHLOR; ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDE; OXYCHLORDANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLORDAN; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449589951     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0800359     Document Type: Article

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