Evaluation of contaminated drinking water and male breast cancer at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina: A case control study

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ruckart, Perri Zeitz ^a   Bove, Frank J ^a   Shanley, Edwin ^b   Maslia, Morris ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Male breast cancer; Military exposures; Solvents; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

1,2 DICHLOROETHYLENE; BENZENE; DRINKING WATER; SOLVENT; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; VINYL CHLORIDE; GROUND WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CANCER; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; MILITARY LAND; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; RISK FACTOR; SOLVENT; WATER POLLUTION;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BONE CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CHOLELITHIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EPIDIDYMITIS; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GYNECOMASTIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; MALE BREAST CANCER; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MESOTHELIOMA; METABOLIC DISORDER; OBESITY; ORCHITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SAILOR; SKIN CANCER; SOLDIER; THYROID DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; VETERAN; VIET NAM; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; ADOLESCENT; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTANT; YOUNG ADULT;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NORTH CAROLINA; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLVENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941756421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12940-015-0061-4     Document Type: Article

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