Arsenic in drinking water and renal cancers in rural Bangladesh

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 768-773

  Mostafa, M G ^a   Cherry, Nicola ^b  

^a National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; WELL WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER RISK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER CONTENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY; WATER WELLS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885848814     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2013-101443     Document Type: Article

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