Self-reported exposure to pesticides in residential settings and risk of breast cancer: A case-control study

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Farooq, Umar ^a   Joshi, Monika ^a   Nookala, Vinod ^a   Cheriyath, Pramil ^a   Fischman, Daniel ^a   Graber, Nora J ^b   Stellman, Steven D ^c   Muscat, Joshua ^b  

^a Harrisburg Hospital   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PESTICIDE; DOMESTIC CHEMICAL; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE;

CANCER; HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SERUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANT; ARTICLE; BEE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLEA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; TICK; UNITED STATES; WASP; BREAST TUMOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; RISK FACTOR;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

BLATTARIA; CAMPONOTUS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HERBICIDES; HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; ODDS RATIO; PESTICIDES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77955020771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-9-30     Document Type: Article

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