Drinking water and cancer

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 292-308

  Cantor, Kenneth P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Asbestos; Cancer; Disinfection byproducts; Drinking water; Fluoride; Nitrate

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC; ASBESTOS; BROMIDE; CADMIUM; CARCINOGEN; CHLORINE; CHLOROFORM; CHROMIUM; DICHLOROETHANE; DIELDRIN; DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE; FULVIC ACID; FURANONE DERIVATIVE; GROUND WATER; HUMIC ACID; METAL; MUTAGENIC AGENT; N NITROSOPROLINE; NICKEL; NITRATE; NITROSAMINE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PESTICIDE; RADIOISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; TRIHALOMETHANE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; FEMALE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMAN; LANDFILL; LEACHING; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER HARDNESS;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; ASBESTOS; CARCINOGENS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISINFECTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLUORIDES; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMANS; METALS; NEOPLASMS; NITRATES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PESTICIDES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIOISOTOPES; RISK FACTORS; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0030808120     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018444902486     Document Type: Review

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