Exposure to fogger trucks and breast cancer incidence in the long Island breast cancer study project: A case-control study

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  White, Alexandra J ^a   Teitelbaum, Susan L ^b   Wolff, Mary S ^b   Stellman, Steven D ^c   Neugut, Alfred I ^c   Gammon, Marilie D ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

1,2, Dichloro 2,2 bis (p chlorophenyl)ethylene (DDE); Breast; Cancer; Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (p,p' DDT); Organochlorines; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHLORPHENOTANE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMARKER; CANCER; DDE; DDT; DISEASE CONTROL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; HEALTH RISK; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR POSITIVE BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR POSITIVE BREAST CANCER; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DDT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

LONG ISLAND [NEW YORK]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877728683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-12-24     Document Type: Article

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