Cancer risks associated with arsenic: Lamm et al. respond [4]

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Lamm, Steven H ^a   Engel, Arnold ^a   Feinleib, Manning ^b   Penn, Cecelia A ^b   Chen, Rusan ^c  

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

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

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC POISONING; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN CANCER; TAIWAN;

EID: 34548211963     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9927R     Document Type: Letter

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