Self-reported chemicals exposure, beliefs about disease causation, and risk of breast cancer in the Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environment Study: A case-control study

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Zota, Ami R ^a   Aschengrau, Ann ^b   Rudel, Ruthann A ^a   Brody, Julia Green ^a  

^a Silent Spring Institute   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC CHEMICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC CHEMICALS; PESTICIDE; CARCINOGEN;

CANCER; CARCINOGEN; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; ETIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; PESTICIDE; RISK FACTOR; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLLUTANT; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; RISK FACTOR;

CAPE COD; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOGENS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PESTICIDES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77954671735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-9-40     Document Type: Article

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