Incidence of oral cancer in relation to nickel and arsenic concentrations in farm soils of patients' residential areas in Taiwan

BACKGROUND: To explore if exposures to specific heavy metals in the environment is a new risk factor of oral cancer, one of the fastest growing malignancies in Taiwan, in addition to the two established risk factors, cigarette smoking and betel quid chewing. METHODS: This is an observational study u...

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Autores principales: Su, Che-Chun, Lin, Yo-Yu, Chang, Tsun-Kuo, Chiang, Chi-Ting, Chung, Jian-An, Hsu, Yun-Ying, Lian, Ie-Bin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20152030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-67

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20152030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-67

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