Cancer risk disparities between hispanic and non-hispanic white populations: The role of exposure to indoor air pollution

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1925-1931

  Hun, Diana E ^a   Siegel, Jeffrey A ^a   Morandi, Maria T ^b   Stock, Thomas H ^b   Corsi, Richard L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer risk assessment; Formaldehyde; Hazardous air pollutants; Hispanics; p dichlorobenzene; Personal exposure

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CHLOROFORM; DICHLOROMETHANE; ETHYLBENZENE; FORMALDEHYDE; STYRENE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INDUSTRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; ROOM VENTILATION;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BENZENE; CHLOROBENZENES; CHLOROFORM; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FORMALDEHYDE; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 75349104339     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0900925     Document Type: Article

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