Cadmium exposure and cancer mortality in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey cohort

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 153-156

  Adams, Scott V ^a   Passarelli, Michael N ^a,b   Newcomb, Polly A ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINE LEVEL; UTERUS CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CADMIUM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CREATININE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855669642     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2011-100111     Document Type: Article

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