Cancer risks associated with arsenic in drinking water [3]

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Guo, How Ran ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ARSENIC POISONING; BLACK FOOT DISEASE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TAIWAN; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ARSENIC; CARCINOGENS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 34548244627     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9927     Document Type: Letter

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