An epidemiologic study of arsenic-related skin disorders and skin cancer and the consumption of arsenic-contaminated well waters in Huhhot, inner Mongolia, China

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 713-746

  Lamm, Steven H ^a,b,c,d,e,l   Luo, Zhen Dong ^a,f   Bo, Fu Bao ^a,f   Zhang, Ge You ^a,f   Zhang, Ye Min ^a,f   Wilson, Richard ^a,g   Byrd, Daniel M ^a,b   Lai, Shenghan ^a,h   Li, Feng Xiao ^b,i   Polkanov, Michael ^f,k   Tong, Ying ^j   Loo, Lian ^j   Tucker, Stephen B ^a,j  

^a Inner Mongolia Cooperative Arsenic Project Washington   (United States)

^b Huhhot im PRC ^*  (United States)

^c Center for Epidemiology and Global Health   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f Huhhot Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Mongolia)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^k ESRI   (United States)

^l Inner Mongolia Cooperative Arsenic Project (IMCAP)   (United States)

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Author keywords

Akin cancer risk; Arsenic related skin effects; Inner Mongolia; Threshold (hockey stick) model

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547194165     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030701456528     Document Type: Article

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