Studying the impact of early life exposures to pesticides on the risk of testicular germ cell tumors during adulthood (TESTIS project): Study protocol

BMC Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Béranger, Rémi ^a,b,c   Pérol, Olivia ^a   Bujan, Louis ^d,e   Faure, Elodie ^a   Blain, Jeffrey ^a   Cornet, Charlotte L ^a,b   Flechon, Aude ^a   Charbotel, Barbara ^f,g   Philip, Thierry ^a   Schüz, Joachim ^b   Fervers, Béatrice ^a,c  

^a CENTRE LÉON BÉRARD   (France)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d Paul Sabatier University   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^g University Lyon   (France)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Environmental exposure; Gene environment interaction; Geographic information systems; Germinoma; Maternal exposure; Occupational exposures; Paternal exposure; Pesticides; Testicular neoplasms

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PILOT STUDY; TESTICULAR GERM CELL TUMOR; TESTIS CANCER;

EID: 84905919988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-563     Document Type: Article

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