How creditable are cancer risk estimates from the S.W. Taiwan database for arsenic in drinking water?

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 180-190

  Brown, Kenneth G ^a  

^a KBinc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Dose response; Drinking water; Inorganic arsenic; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847092404     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030601105332     Document Type: Review

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