## Background: No single occupational or environmental agent has been established as causing ovarian cancer, existing studies often being based on ecologic or proportional mortality data in which potential confounders related to reproductive history have not been taken into account. ## Methods: T
Occupational exposures and the risk of ovarian cancer in Sweden
β Scribed by Tammy Shields; Gloria Gridley; Tahere Moradi; Johanna Adami; Nils Plato; Mustafa Dosemeci
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
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