Relationships between occupational history and serum concentrations of organochlorine compounds in exocrine pancreatic cancer

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 332-338

  De Basea, Magda Bosch ^a,b   Porta, Miquel ^a,b,c   Alguacil, Joan ^b,d   Puigdomènech, Elisa ^a,b   Gasull, Magda ^a,b   Garrido, José A ^d   López, Tomàs ^a,b  

^a INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; BETA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LEAD; NICKEL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LEAD; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICKEL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PANCREAS, EXOCRINE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN;

EID: 79953827559     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.054197     Document Type: Article

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