* Low-dose risk assessment for arsenic: a meta-analysis approach.
- We conducted a meta-analysis to explore dose-response relationships for bladder and lung cancers when people are chronically exposed to low doses of arsenic. We searched electronic databases for articles published through 2010. Ten studies on bladder cancer and ingested arsenic exposure and five studies on lung cancer and ingested arsenic exposure fit our selection criteria. We also investigate the sensitivity of the absolute risk of lung and bladder cancer under different underlying prevalence measures. Males have a higher risk of bladder cancer than do females at all maximum contamination levels. The absolute risk of bladder cancer and lung cancer from ingested arsenic correlates highly with smoking rates. For a maximum contamination level of 10 µg/L, we estimate that there are about 2.91 additional bladder cancer cases per 100,000 people and, considering studies since 2000, we estimate that there are about 4.51 additional lung cancer cases per 100,000 people.
=>【病名】がん, 悪性腫瘍(しゅよう), がん腫, 社会悪, 癌
Overview of noun cancer
The noun cancer has 5 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (15) cancer, malignant neoplastic disease -- (any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal
and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic
system or the blood stream)
2. Cancer, Crab -- ((astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer)
3. Cancer -- (a small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Leo and Gemini)
4. Cancer, Cancer the Crab, Crab -- (the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from
about June 21 to July 22)
5. Cancer, genus Cancer -- (type genus of the family Cancridae)
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