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The Carcinogenicity of Chromium [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironmental Health Perspectives, 1981
The carcinogenicity of chromium compounds is reviewed with specific attention to the gaps in knowledge for risk estimation and research needs. The most important problems at present are whether trivalent chromium compounds cause cancer, and whether there is a difference in cancer causing effects between the soluble and the slightly soluble hexavalent ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Analysis of annexin 7 gene of malignant prostatic hyperplasia-induced male wistar rats in the presence of Annona muricata

open access: yesJournal of Taibah University for Science, 2019
Background: Prostate cancer has become the most common cancer among African – American men and the second leading cause of cancer death in men worldwide.
Joseph Bamidele Minari   +1 more
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Malachite green removal and bio-electricity generation using a novel-design multi-electrode microbial fuel cell [PDF]

open access: yesActa Scientiarum Polonorum. Formatio Circumiectus, 2021
Aim of the study: This study aims to develop the novel model of multi-electrode MFC with the termite-associated yeast G. reessii for MG decelorization and electricity generation. Material and methods: The termite-associated yeast G.
Pimprapa Chaijak
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A silent epidemic: occupational exposure limits are insufficiently protecting individual worker health

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2020
In an editorial in an earlier issue of this journal, Johanson & Tinnerberg (1) expressed serious and well-founded concern over the large number of future occupational cancer cases that will result if exposures for a number of substances are not reduced ...
Maria Albin, Per Gustavsson
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Carcinogenicity of chloroform. [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironmental Health Perspectives, 1979
Chloroform is carcinogenic in rats, mice, and probably in dogs. Chloroform induced carcinomas of the liver and kidney and malignant tumors in other organs in rats and mice. Liver neoplasms have been described in three strains of mice. Carcinomas of the kidney were found in a first study in mice and in the repeat of that study.
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CARcinogen EXposure: CAREX

open access: yesAsian Pacific Journal of Environment and Cancer, 2018
Cancer is the second common cause of death worldwide and a significant ratio of all cancers is related to occupational and living environments. On the other side, cancer prevalence could be controlled and prevented via policies to improve occupational ...
Saeed Yari   +3 more
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Predicting residential radon concentrations in Finland: Model development, validation, and application to childhood leukemia

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2020
OBJECTIVES: Inhaled radon gas is a known alpha-emitting carcinogen linked especially to lung cancer. Studies on higher concentrations of indoor radon and childhood leukemia have conflicting but largely negative results.
Atte Nikkilä   +6 more
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The Carcinogenicity of Arsenic [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironmental Health Perspectives, 1981
A carcinogenic role of inorganic arsenic has been suspected for nearly a century. Exposure to inorganic arsenic compounds occurs in some occupational groups, e.g., among smelter workers and workers engaged in the production and use of arsenic containing pesticides. Substantial exposure can also result from drinking water in certain areas and the use of
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Say ‘no’ to carcinogen as contraception alternative

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2012
A response to Correspondence to ‘Dienye PO, Gbeneol PK. Contraception as a risk factor for urinary tract infection in Port Harcourt, Nigeria: A case control study. Afr J Prm Health Care Fam Med. 2011;3(1), Art. #207, 4 pages.
Karen Malec
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Diet and cancer

open access: yesBLDE University Journal of Health Sciences, 2021
Cancer arising out of diets and protective role of diet from cancers to preserve health and nutritional status is a debate in the healthcare arena. In search of perennial conflict on diet and cancer, researchers of this review emphasized conceptual and ...
Swapan Kumar Paul   +3 more
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