Successful control of schistosomiasis and the changing epidemiology of bladder cancer in Egypt

BJU International

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 206-211

  Salem, Shady ^b   Mitchell, Robert E ^a   El Alim El Dorey, Abd ^b   Smith, Joseph A ^a   Barocas, Daniel A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

bladder cancer; environmental health; public health; schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; COPPER SULFATE; NICLOSAMIDE; PRAZIQUANTEL; SEDATIVE AGENT; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEMATURIA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LIVER FIBROSIS; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MALNUTRITION; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; STUNTING; SUPERINFECTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINARY TRACT CANCER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VECTOR CONTROL;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EGYPT; HUMANS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78651079806     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09622.x     Document Type: Article

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