Farming, growing up on a farm, and haematological cancer mortality

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 126-132

  'T Mannetje, Andrea ^a   Eng, Amanda ^a   Pearce, Neil ^a,b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BEEF CATTLE; BIRTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; GENDER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; LIVESTOCK; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT PLASMACYTOMA; MONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NEW ZEALAND; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PARENTS; POULTRY; RISK FACTORS;

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EID: 84855676365     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2011.065110     Document Type: Article

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