Cancer incidence in female cosmetologists and manicurists in California, 1988-2005

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 172, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 691-699

  Quach, Thu ^a   Doan Billing, Phuong An ^a   Layefsky, Michael ^a   Nelson, David ^a   Nguyen, Kim Dung ^a   Okahara, Linda ^a   Tran, Alisha Ngoc ^a   Von Behren, Julie ^a   Reynolds, Peggy ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

cohort studies; cosmetics; environment and public health; incidence; lung neoplasms; occupational exposure; thyroid neoplasms

Indexed keywords

CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON RATIO; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMETIC INDUSTRY; COSMETOLOGIST; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANICURIST; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CANCER; UNITED STATES; AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BEAUTY CULTURE; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANT;

EID: 77956927131     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq190     Document Type: Article

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