Plasma organochlorine levels and prostate cancer risk

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 434-445

  Aronson, Kristan J ^a   Wilson, James W L ^a   Hamel, Meghan ^a   Diarsvitri, Wienta ^a   Fan, Wenli ^a   Woolcott, Christy ^b   Heaton, Jeremy P W ^a   Nickel, J Curtis ^a   MacNeily, Andrew ^c   Morales, Alvara ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

environment.; environment.prostate cancer; logistic regression; organochlorines; pesticides; polychlorinated biphenyls; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CANADA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSTATE TUMOR; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; ONTARIO; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77953873775     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2009.33     Document Type: Article

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