DDT and Breast Cancer in Young Women: New Data on the Significance of Age at Exposure
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- 1 October 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Environmental Health Perspectives in Environmental Health Perspectives
- Vol. 115 (10), 1406-1414
- https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.10260
Abstract
Previous studies of DDT and breast cancer assessed exposure later in life when the breast may not have been vulnerable, after most DDT had been eliminated, and after DDT had been banned.We investigated whether DDT exposure in young women during the period ...Keywords
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