Cancer incidence in a Swedish cohort with high exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances in drinking water

• Published in: Environmental research Vol. 204; no. Pt C; p. 112217
• Main Authors: Li, Huiqi, Hammarstrand, Sofia, Midberg, Bo, Xu, Yiyi, Li, Ying, Olsson, Daniel S., Fletcher, Tony, Jakobsson, Kristina, Andersson, Eva M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier Inc 01.03.2022
• Subjects: acid; airports; Alkanesulfonic Acids - analysis; ammonium perfluorooctanoate; Arbetsmedicin och miljömedicin; Cancer; Cancer and Oncology; Cancer och onkologi; carcinogenicity; Drinking water; Drinking Water - analysis; Environmental & Occupational; Environmental Health and Occupational Health; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Female; fire fighting; Fluorocarbons - analysis; Fluorocarbons - toxicity; Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa och socialmedicin; Hazard ratio; Health; Health Sciences; Humans; Hälsovetenskap; Incidence; kidney neoplasms; Longitudinal study; Male; Medical and Health Sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; mortality; Neoplasms - chemically induced; Neoplasms - epidemiology; Occupational Health and Environmental Health; perfluorohexane sulfonic acid; PFAS; pfoa; prostatic neoplasms; Public; Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine; risk; Sweden - epidemiology; urinary bladder neoplasms; water distribution; Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis; Water Pollutants, Chemical - toxicity; water pollution; Sweden; Drinking water; PFAS; Hazard ratio; Longitudinal study; Cancer

The use of firefighting foams at a military airport resulted in high levels of perfluorinated substances (PFAS) in the drinking water distributed to one-third of households in the Swedish municipality of Ronneby between the mid-1980s and the end of 2013. The Ronneby Register Cohort, a large cohort c...