Causes and risk factors for childhood cancer;Le cause e i fattori di rischio delle neoplasie pediatriche

Epidemiologia e Prevenzione

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 234-254

  Pisani, Paola ^a   Parodi, Stefano ^b   Magnani, Corrado ^c  

^a Registro Tumori Piemonte   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c Centro per la Prevenzione Oncologica Piemonte   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; PASSIVE SMOKING; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT;

ADOLESCENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHILD; COCARCINOGENESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFANT; ITALY; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; NEWBORN; PASSIVE SMOKING; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TOXICITY; VIRUS CELL TRANSFORMATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CARCINOGENS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CELL TRANSFORMATION, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCARCINOGENESIS; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895854806     PISSN: 11209763     EISSN: 23851937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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