Noticing pesticide spray drift from agricultural pesticide application areas and breast cancer: A case-control study

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 547-555

  El Zaemey, Sonia ^a   Heyworth, Jane ^a   Fritschi, Lin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

agriculture; breast neoplasms; environmental exposure; pesticides

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; AGRICULTURE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RECALL; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PESTICIDES; RISK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84891478843     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1753-6405.12111     Document Type: Article

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