TY - JOUR
T1 - Cancer Burden from Arsenic in Drinking Water in Bangladesh
AU - Chen, Yu
AU - Ahsan, Habibul
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2004/5
Y1 - 2004/5
N2 - We assessed the potential burden of internal cancers due to arsenic exposure in Bangladesh. We estimated excess lifetime risks of death from liver, bladder, and lung cancers using an exposure distribution, death probabilities, and cancer mortality rates from Bangladesh and dose-specific relative risk estimates from Taiwan. Results indicated at least a doubling of lifetime mortality risk from liver, bladder, and lung cancers (229.6 vs 103.5 per 100000 population) in Bangladesh owing to arsenic in drinking water.
AB - We assessed the potential burden of internal cancers due to arsenic exposure in Bangladesh. We estimated excess lifetime risks of death from liver, bladder, and lung cancers using an exposure distribution, death probabilities, and cancer mortality rates from Bangladesh and dose-specific relative risk estimates from Taiwan. Results indicated at least a doubling of lifetime mortality risk from liver, bladder, and lung cancers (229.6 vs 103.5 per 100000 population) in Bangladesh owing to arsenic in drinking water.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.94.5.741
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.94.5.741
M3 - Article
C2 - 15117692
AN - SCOPUS:2342441333
VL - 94
SP - 741
EP - 744
JO - American Journal of Public Health
JF - American Journal of Public Health
SN - 0090-0036
IS - 5
ER -