Ecological studies of cancer incidence in an area interested by dumping waste sites in Campania (Italy)

Cancer incidence was investigated in an area which has been affected by the illegal practices of dumping hazardous waste and setting fire to mismanaged waste. For the 35 municipalities of this area that are served by a Cancer Registry, municipal standardized incidence ratios (SIR) and hierarchical B...

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Main Authors: Lucia Fazzo, Marco De Santis, Francesco Mitis, Marta Benedetti, Marco Martuzzi, Pietro Comba, Mario Fusco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Istituto Superiore di Sanità 2011-01-01
Series:Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0021-25712011000200010&lng=en&tlng=en