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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-8-16
pubmed:abstractText
With data from the Iowa Cancer Registry, age-adjusted sex-specific cancer incidence rates for the years 1969-1981 were determined for towns with a population of 1,000-10,000 and a public water supply from a single stable ground source. These rates were related to levels of volatile organic compounds and metals found in the finished drinking water of these towns in the spring of 1979. Results showed association between 1,2 dichloroethane and cancers of the colon and rectum and between nickel and cancers of the bladder and lung. The effects were most clearly seen in males. These associations were independent of other water quality and treatment variables and were not explained by occupational or other sociodemographic features including smoking. Because of the low levels of the metals and organics, the authors suggest that they are not causal factors, but rather indicators of possible anthropogenic contamination of other types. The data suggest that water quality variables other than chlorination and trihalomethanes deserve further consideration as to their role in the development of human cancer.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0002-9262
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
121
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
856-69
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Carcinogens, Environmental, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Child, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Chlorine, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Colonic Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Ethylene Dichlorides, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Female, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Iowa, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Lung Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Male, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Nickel, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Rectal Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Risk, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Socioeconomic Factors, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Tetrachloroethylene, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Trichloroethanes, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Trichloroethylene, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Urinary Bladder Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Water Pollutants, pubmed-meshheading:4014178-Water Pollutants, Chemical
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Drinking water and cancer incidence in Iowa. III. Association of cancer with indices of contamination.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.