Contact with animals and risk of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma: Outcome of a case-control study from Kashmir, a high-risk region

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 208-214

  Dar, Nazir Ahmad ^a,b   Islami, Farhad ^b,c   Bhat, Gulzar Ahmad ^a   Shah, Idrees Ayoub ^a   Makhdoomi, Muzamil Ashraf ^a   Iqbal, Beenish ^a   Rafiq, Rumaisa ^a   Lone, Mohd Maqbool ^d   Boffetta, Paolo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR   (India)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHER I KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^e INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIVESTOCK; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893720303     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2013-101802     Document Type: Article

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