Correlation of breast cancer incidence with the number of motor vehicles and consumption of gasoline in Korea

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2959-2964

  Park, Bo young ^a   Shin, Aesun ^b   Jung Choi, Kyunghee ^c   Ha, Eunhee ^c   Cheong, Hae Kwan ^d   Kim, Hyun Jeong ^e   Park, Kyung Hwa ^e   Jang, Sungmi ^c   Moon, Byung In ^f   Ha, Mina ^g  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^f Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^g Dankook University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Consumption of gasoline; Environmental factor; Motor vehicle; Traffic emission

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; GASOLINE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GASOLINE; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84900851210     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2014.15.7.2959     Document Type: Article

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