Response to Condon et al. comments on "cancer clusters in the USA: What do the last twenty years of state and federal investigations tell us?"

Critical Reviews in Toxicology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-76

  Goodman, Michael ^a   Naiman, Joshua S ^b   Goodman, Dina ^c   Lakind, Judy S ^d,e,f  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LaKind Associates LLC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER REGISTRY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; LETTER; UNITED STATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84871336326     PISSN: 10408444     EISSN: 15476898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10408444.2012.743505     Document Type: Letter

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