Occupational and environmental risk factors for brain cancer: a pilot case-control study in France

Presse Medicale

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Spinelli, Valérie ^a   Chinot, Olivier ^b   Cabaniols, Cécilia ^a   Giorgi, Roch ^b   Alla, Philippe ^c   Lehucher Michel, Marie Pascale ^a,b  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c Military Teaching Hospital Sainte Anne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN CANCER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FRANCE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR;

ADHESIVES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELLULAR PHONE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 75349093905     PISSN: 07554982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lpm.2009.06.020     Document Type: Article

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