Childhood cancer and traffic-related air pollution exposure in pregnancy and early life

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 1385-1391

  Heck, Julia E ^a   Wu, Jun ^b   Lombardi, Christina ^a   Qiu, Jiaheng ^a   Meyers, Travis J ^a   Wilhelm, Michelle ^a   Cockburn, Myles ^c   Ritz, Beate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPENDYMOMA; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GERM CELL TUMOR; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEWBORN; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOBLASTOMA; TERATOMA; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CALIFORNIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84888422672     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306761     Document Type: Article

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