Nitrate in public water supplies and the risk of renal cell carcinoma

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1141-1151

  Ward, Mary H ^a   Rusiecki, Jennifer A ^b   Lynch, Charles F ^c   Cantor, Kenneth P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Drinking water; N nitroso compounds; Nitrate; Nitrite; Renal cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; NITRATE; NITROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN INTAKE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINES; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; IOWA; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRATES; NITROSO COMPOUNDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 34848862188     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-007-9053-1     Document Type: Article

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