Organochlorine exposure and colorectal cancer risk

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1460-1466

  Howsam, Mike ^a   Grimalt, Joan O ^b   Guinó, Elisabet ^c   Navarro, Matilde ^c   Martí Ragué, Juan ^d   Peinado, Miguel A ^e   Capellá, Gabriel ^c   Moreno, Victor ^c   de Oca, Javier ^f   Osorio, Alfonso ^f   del Río, Carlos ^f   Biondo, Sebastiano ^f   Badosa, Josep Ma ^f   Cambray, María ^f   Vilardell, Felip ^f   Lloveras, Belén ^f   Novell, Valeri ^f   Pareja, Laura ^f  

^a Lab Univ de Medecine du Travail   (France)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

^c CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^e Institut de Recerca Oncologica   (Spain)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Case control study; Colorectal cancer; K ras mutations; Organochlorines; p53 mutations; PCBs

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPHA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; K RAS PROTEIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPAIN;

EID: 8744236119     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7143     Document Type: Article

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