Thinking about the role (Largely Ignored) of heavy metals in cancer prevention: Hexavalent chromium and melanoma as a case in point

Recent Results in Cancer Research

Volumn 188, Issue , 2011, Pages 65-74

  Meyskens, Frank L ^a,b   Yang, Sun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; COBALT; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PREVENTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE MUTATION; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; METAL IMPLANTATION; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UPREGULATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; CHROMIUM; HUMANS; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 79551542811     PISSN: 00800015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10858-7_5     Document Type: Article

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