Reduction in arsenic intake from water has different impacts on lung cancer and bladder cancer in an arseniasis endemic area in Taiwan

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-108

  Su, Che Chun ^a,b   Lu, Jia Ling ^b   Tsai, Kuo Yang ^a   Lian, Ie Bin ^b  

^a CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

APC model; Arsenic exposure; Bladder cancer; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; TAP WATER; WELL WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; BLACKFOOT DISEASE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TAIWAN; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; COHORT STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; TAIWAN; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 78751566405     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-010-9679-2     Document Type: Article

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