Complex organochlorine pesticide mixtures as determinant factor for breast cancer risk: A population-based case-control study in the Canary Islands (Spain)

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Boada, Luis D ^a   Zumbado, Manuel ^a   Henríquez Hernández, Luis Alberto ^a,b   Almeida González, Maira ^a   Álvarez León, Eva E ^c   Serra Majem, Lluis ^a   Luzardo, Octavio P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breast cancer risk; Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (DDD); Organochlorine pesticides mixtures

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHANE; 1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ALDRIN; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIELDRIN; ENDRIN; LINDANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; INSECTICIDE;

CANCER; DDD; DDE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HCH; HEALTH RISK; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LACTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; SPAIN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; BREAST TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POLLUTANT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CANARY ISLANDS; GRAN CANARIA; LAS PALMAS; SPAIN;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INCIDENCE; INSECTICIDES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 84863882703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-11-28     Document Type: Article

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