Environmental risk factors for cancers of the brain and nervous system: The use of ecological data to generate hypotheses

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 349-356

  De Vocht, Frank ^a   Hannam, Kimberly ^a   Buchan, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUEL; GASOLINE; PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CARBON FOOTPRINT; EMPLOYMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN; INTERNET; MOBILE PHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRAFFIC; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; WASTE; WATER POLLUTANT;

BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELLULAR PHONE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCOME; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84877624739     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-100954     Document Type: Article

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