Importance of meta-analyses for evaluating carcinogens

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kogevinas, Manolis ^a   Pearce, Neil ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CARCINOGEN;

CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LETTER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASBESTOS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84859372675     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104755     Document Type: Letter

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