Risk of total and aggressive prostate cancer and pesticide use in the Agricultural Health Study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-74

  Koutros, Stella ^a   Beane Freeman, Laura E ^a   Lubin, Jay H ^a   Heltshe, Sonya L ^c   Andreotti, Gabriella ^a   Barry, Kathryn Hughes ^a   Dellavalle, Curt T ^a   Hoppin, Jane A ^b   Sandler, Dale P ^b   Lynch, Charles F ^d   Blair, Aaron ^a   Alavanja, Michael C R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

aggressive prostate cancer; cohort study; farming; organophosphate insecticides; pesticide exposure; prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ALDRIN; ATRAZINE; CAMPHECLOR; CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; CHLORPYRIFOS; COUMAFOS; CYANAZINE; DICHLORVOS; DIELDRIN; DIMPYLATE; FONOFOS; HEPTACHLOR; LINDANE; MALATHION; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; PARATHION; PHORATE; TERBUFOS;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGROCHEMICAL; CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; FAMILY HISTORY; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGRICULTURE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84871799532     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kws225     Document Type: Article

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