Use of acetochlor and cancer incidence in the Agricultural Health Study

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1167-1175

  Lerro, Catherine C ^a,b   Koutros, Stella ^a   Andreotti, Gabriella ^a   Hines, Cynthia J ^c   Blair, Aaron ^a   Lubin, Jay ^a   Ma, Xiaomei ^b   Zhang, Yawei ^b   Beane Freeman, Laura E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

acetochlor; Agricultural Health Study; cancer; pesticides

Indexed keywords

ACETOCHLOR; ATRAZINE; HERBICIDE; TOLUIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MELANOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; RISK FACTOR; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; UNITED STATES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CLASSIFICATION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; INCIDENCE; IOWA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS; NORTH CAROLINA; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ATRAZINE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IOWA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOLUIDINES;

EID: 84931577701     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.29416     Document Type: Article

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