Study of selected trace elements in cancerous and non-cancerous human breast tissues from Sudanese subjects using instrumental neutron activation analysis

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 383, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 52-58

  Ebrahim, Ammar M ^a   Eltayeb, M A H ^a   Shaat, M K ^b   Mohmed, Nader M A ^b   Eltayeb, E A ^a   Ahmed, Amel Y ^a  

^a SUDAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION   (Sudan)

^b HOT LABORATORIES CENTER   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Neutron activation analysis; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; SELENIUM; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ZINC;

BREAST CANCER; MALIGNANT TISSUES; NORMAL TISSUE; SUDANESE;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

CESIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; IRON; RUBIDIUM; SCANDIUM; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

CANCER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); TRACE ELEMENT; WOMENS HEALTH;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; METALS; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; RUBIDIUM; SUDAN;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SUDAN;

EID: 34447097835     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.04.047     Document Type: Article

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