A case-control study of occupational exposure to trichloroethylene and non-hodgkin lymphoma

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 232-238

  Purdue, Mark P ^a   Bakke, Berit ^a,b   Stewart, Patricia ^a,c   de Roos, Anneclaire J ^d   Schenk, Maryjean ^e   Lynch, Charles F ^f   Bernstein, Leslie ^g   Morton, Lindsay M ^a   Cerhan, James R ^h   Severson, Richard K ^e   Cozen, Wendy ⁱ   Davis, Scott ^d   Rothman, Nathaniel ^a   Hartge, Patricia ^a   Colt, Joanne S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

^c Stewart Exposure Assessments LLC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h Mayo Clinic   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Non Hodgkin lymphoma; Occupational; Solvents; Trichloroethylene

Indexed keywords

TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOCYTOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIME; UNITED STATES; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

EID: 79955850160     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002106     Document Type: Article

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