Obfuscation does not provide comfort: Response to the article by Fryzek et al on hydraulic fracturing and childhood cancer

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1376-1378

  Goldstein, Bernard D ^a   Malone, Samantha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; CHEMICAL COMPOUND;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GAS; HUMAN; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; LETTER; NOISE; ODOR; OFFSHORE OIL INDUSTRY; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; POPULATION DENSITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; STRESS; TECHNOLOGY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCONVENTIONAL GAS DRILLING; UNITED STATES;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FEMALE; GAS, NATURAL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; OIL AND GAS FIELDS;

EID: 84888112515     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000014     Document Type: Letter

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