Case-control study of male cancer patients exposed to arseniccontaminated drinking water and tobacco smoke with relation to non-exposed cancer patients

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2013-2022

  Wadhwa, Sham Kumar ^a   Kazi, Tasneem Gul ^a   Kolachi, Nida Fatima ^a   Afridi, Hassan Imran ^a   Khan, Sumaira ^a   Chandio, Akhtar Ali ^b   Shah, Abdul Qadir ^a   Kandhro, Ghulam Abbas ^a   Nasreen, Syeda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SINDH   (Pakistan)

^b Larkana Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy (LINAR)   (Pakistan)

^c Nuclear Institute of Medicine and Radiotherapy NIMRA   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Blood; Cancer; Scalp hair; Tobacco; Water

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP HAIR; SMOKING; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ARSENICALS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAIR; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PAKISTAN; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; TOBACCO; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84856262072     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: 14770903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0960327111408154     Document Type: Article

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