Paternal occupational exposure to pesticides and risk of neuroblastoma among children: A meta-analysis

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1529-1536

  Moore, Amy ^a   Enquobahrie, Daniel A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Neuroblastoma; Occupational exposure; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIXED EFFECT INVERSE VARIANCE WEIGHTING METHOD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; NEUROBLASTOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM EFFECT METHOD; SHORE ADJUSTED CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 82955187334     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-011-9829-1     Document Type: Article

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