Skip Navigation

American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 161(1):101-102; doi:10.1093/aje/kwi009
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (1)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Poole, C.
Right arrow Articles by Acquavella, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Poole, C.
Right arrow Articles by Acquavella, J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Copyright © 2005 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "CANCER INCIDENCE AMONG PESTICIDE APPLICATORS EXPOSED TO ALACHLOR IN THE AGRICULTURAL HEALTH STUDY"

Charles Poole1, Mark Cullen2, Richard Irons3 and John Acquavella4

1 Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435
2 Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510
3 Molecular Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences Program, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262
4 Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO 63167

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

In a recent Journal article, Lee et al. concluded, "Our findings suggest a possible association between alachlor application and incidence of lymphohematopoietic cancers among applicators in the Agricultural Health Study" (1, p. 373). This interpretation, based on p values of 0.02 and 0.03 from trend analyses of unweighted and intensity-weighted alachlor use days, requires qualification in several ways. We describe two . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?