Hazardous air pollutants and breast cancer risk in California teachers: A cohort study -No section-

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Garcia, Erika ^a,b   Hurley, Susan ^a   Nelson, David O ^a   Hertz, Andrew ^a   Reynolds, Peggy ^a,c  

^a Cancer Prevention Institute of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Benzene; Breast cancer; Carbon tetrachloride; Estrogen receptor; Ethylidene dichloride; Hazardous air pollutant; National scale Air Toxics Assessment; Progesterone receptor; Vinyl chloride

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIBROMOETHANE; 1,2 DICHLOROETHANE; 1,3 BUTADIENE; 2 METHYLANILINE; 4,4' METHYLENEBIS(2 CHLOROANILINE); ACRYLAMIDE; ACRYLONITRILE; ALCOHOL; BENZENE; BENZIDINE; CARBENE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLOROPRENE; DICHLOROMETHANE; DIOXANE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ETHYLENE OXIDE; HYDRAZINE; NITROBENZENE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROPYLENE OXIDE; STYRENE; TOBACCO SMOKE; TOLUENE DIISOCYANATE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; URETHAN; VINYL CHLORIDE; VINYLIDENE CHLORIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; CARCINOGEN;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CANCER; CARCINOGEN; COHORT ANALYSIS; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; ETIOLOGY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; STEROID; TEACHING; TUMOR; URBAN AREA; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DANGEROUS GOODS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TEACHER; UNITED STATES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INCIDENCE; MAMMARY GLAND; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOXICITY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; CARCINOGENS; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928729440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-14-14     Document Type: Article

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