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

• Published in: BMC public health Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 67
• Main Authors: Su, Che-Chun, Lin, Yo-Yu, Chang, Tsun-Kuo, Chiang, Chi-Ting, Chung, Jian-An, Hsu, Yun-Ying, Lian, Ie-Bin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 12.02.2010; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Agriculture; Arsenic; Arsenic - analysis; Development and progression; Female; Health aspects; Humans; Incidence; Male; Mouth cancer; Mouth Neoplasms - epidemiology; Nickel; Nickel - analysis; Regression Analysis; Research article; Residence Characteristics; Risk factors; Socioeconomic Factors; Soil - chemistry; Soil Pollutants - analysis; Taiwan - epidemiology; Taiwan

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. This is an observational study utilized the age-stand...