Lead exposure: A contributing cause of the current breast cancer epidemic in Nigerian Women

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-139

  Alatise, Olusegun I ^a   Schrauzer, Gerhard N ^b  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

.Cadmium; .Chromium; Arsenic; Breast cancer; Iodine; Lead; Metal pollution; Nigeria; Selenium; Tin

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; IODINE; LEAD; MERCURY; SELENIUM; TIN; TRACE ELEMENT; POLLUTANT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HAIR LEVEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NIGERIA; POLLUTION; POPULATION EXPOSURE; RISK REDUCTION; SCALP HAIR; SELENIUM DEFICIENCY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR PROMOTION; TUMOR VOLUME; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CHEMISTRY; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; HAIR; LEAD POISONING; MAMMARY GLAND; MIDDLE AGED; POLLUTANT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TOXICITY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; QUESTIONNAIRES;

MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS; MUS;

EID: 77955570073     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12011-010-8608-2     Document Type: Article

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