Arsenic in drinking water and incidence of urinary cancers

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 545-550

  Guo, How Ran ^a,b   Chiang, Han Sun ^c   Hu, Howard ^b,d   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^b   Monson, Richard R ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Cancer; Cigarette smoking; Drinking water; Ecologic study; Histologic subtypes; Urbanization; Urinary system

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUID INTAKE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URBAN POPULATION; URINARY TRACT CANCER; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARSENIC; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; TAIWAN; URBANIZATION; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0030987459     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199709000-00012     Document Type: Article

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