Risk of breast cancer following exposure to tetrachloroethylene- contaminated drinking water in Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Reanalysis of a case-control study using a modified exposure assessment

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gallagher, Lisa G ^a   Vieira, Veronica M ^a   Ozonoff, David ^a   Webster, Thomas F ^a   Aschengrau, Ann ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; CARCINOGEN;

CANCER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLOW MODELING; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SMOOTHING; SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION; WOMENS HEALTH;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

CAPE COD; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOGENS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79956191260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-10-47     Document Type: Article

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