Association between World Trade Center exposure and excess cancer risk.

@article{Li2012AssociationBW,  title={Association between World Trade Center exposure and excess cancer risk.},  author={Jiehui Li and James E. Cone and Amy R Kahn and Robert M. Brackbill and Mark R. Farfel and Carolyn M. Greene and James L Hadler and Leslie Thomas Stayner and Steven D. Stellman},  journal={JAMA},  year={2012},  volume={308 23},  pages={          2479-88        },  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3467218}}
Using within-cohort comparisons, the intensity of World Trade Center exposure was not significantly associated with cancer of the lung, prostate, thyroid, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, or hematological cancer in either group.

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