Association of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emissions and smoking with lung cancer mortality rates on a global scale

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3410-3416

  Motorykin, Oleksii ^a   Matzke, Melissa M ^b   Waters, Katrina M ^b   Massey Simonich, Staci L ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; LUNG CANCER MORTALITY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON (PAH); SMOKING PREVALENCES; STEPWISE MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; LINEAR REGRESSION;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

BODY MASS; CANCER; CARCINOGEN; DIABETES; DISEASE PREVALENCE; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; MORTALITY; PAH; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BANGLADESH; BODY MASS; BRAZIL; CAMBODIA; CANADA; CANCER MORTALITY; COST; DIABETES MELLITUS; FRANCE; GERMANY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INCOME; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MEXICO; MONGOLIA; NEPAL; NORTH KOREA; POLAND; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CARCINOGENS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MORTALITY; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SMOKING;

AUSTRALIA; BANGLADESH; BRAZIL; CAMBODIA; CANADA; FRANCE; GERMANY; MALAYSIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MONGOLIA; NEPAL; NORTH KOREA; POLAND; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875791088     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es305295d     Document Type: Article

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