Arsenic in drinking water and lung cancer: A systematic review

Environmental Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-55

  Celik, Ismail ^a   Gallicchio, Lisa ^b,c   Boyd, Kristina ^c   Lam, Tram K ^c   Matanoski, Genevieve ^c   Tao, Xuguang ^c,d   Shiels, Meredith ^c   Hammond, Edward ^c   Chen, Liwei ^c   Robinson, Karen A ^d   Caulfield, Laura E ^c   Herman, James G ^d   Guallar, Eliseo ^c   Alberg, Anthony J ^c,e  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Mercy Medical Center   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Drinking water; Epidemiology; Incidence; Lung cancer; Mortality; Systematic review; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ARSENIC; CANCER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SMOKING; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA BASE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TAIWAN; WATER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NIIGATA; TAIWAN;

EID: 50149102771     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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