Body mass index, agricultural pesticide use, and cancer incidence in the Agricultural Health Study cohort

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1759-1775

  Andreotti, Gabriella ^a   Hou, Lifang ^a,b   Beane Freeman, Laura E ^a   Mahajan, Rajeev ^a   Koutros, Stella ^a   Coble, Joseph ^a   Lubin, Jay ^a   Blair, Aaron ^a   Hoppin, Jane A ^c   Alavanja, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Body mass index; Cancer; Obesity; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

ALACHLOR; ATRAZINE; CARBARIL; CARBOFURAN; CHLORIMURON ETHYL; CHLORPHENOTANE; CHLORPYRIFOS; CYANAZINE; DICAMBA; DICHLORVOS; FONOFOS; GLYPHOSATE; MALATHION; METHYL BROMIDE; METOLACHLOR; METRIBUZIN; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PENDIMETHALIN; PERMETHRIN; PESTICIDE; TERBUFOS; THIOCARBAMIC ACID; TRIFLURALIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLID TUMOR; SPOUSE; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PESTICIDES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 78449306679     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-010-9603-9     Document Type: Article

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