Arsenic can cause cancer decades after exposure ends
Date:
October 24, 2017
Source:
Oxford University Press USA
Summary:
Arsenic in drinking water may have one of the longest dormancy periods of any carcinogen. By tracking the mortality rates of people exposed to arsenic-contaminated drinking water in a region in Chile, the researchers provide evidence of increases in lung, bladder, and kidney cancer even 40 years after high arsenic exposures ended.
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