Hazard proximities of childhood cancers in Great Britain from 1953-80.
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Hazard proximities of childhood cancers in Great Britain from 1953-80.
STUDY OBJECTIVES Firstly, to examine relationships between the birth and death addresses of children dying from leukaemia and cancer in Great Britain, and the sites of potential environmental hazards; and secondly to measure relative case densities close to, and at increasing distances from, different hazard types. DESIGN Home address postcodes (PCs) and their map coordinates were identified ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.51.2.151