Cancer Incidence among Pesticide Applicators Exposed to Dicamba in the Agricultural Health Study
Author(s) -
Claudine Samanic,
Jennifer A. Rusiecki,
Mustafa Dosemeci,
Lifang Hou,
Jane A. Hoppin,
Dale P. Sandler,
Jay H. Lubin,
Aaron Blair,
Michael C.R. Alavanja
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.9204
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer , poisson regression , dicamba , lung cancer , confidence interval , incidence (geometry) , environmental health , prospective cohort study , cohort study , colorectal cancer , toxicology , surgery , population , biology , physics , weed control , optics , agronomy
Dicamba is an herbicide commonly applied to crops in the United States and abroad. We evaluated cancer incidence among pesticide applicators exposed to dicamba in the Agricultural Health Study, a prospective cohort of licensed pesticide applicators in North Carolina and Iowa.
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