Bladder Cancer and Exposure to Water Disinfection By-Products through Ingestion, Bathing, Showering, and Swimming in Pools

M. Villanueva, Cristina; P. Cantor, Kenneth; O. Grimalt, Joan; Malats, Núria; Silverman, Daniel; Tardón, Adonina; García‐Closas, Reina; Serra, Cònsol; Carrato, Alfredo; Castano-Vinyals, G.; Marcos, Ricard; Rothman, Nathaniel; X. Real, Francisco; Dosemeci, Mustafa; Kogevinas, Manolis

doi:10.1093/aje/kwj364

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Bladder Cancer and Exposure to Water Disinfection By-Products through Ingestion, Bathing, Showering, and Swimming in Pools

Published in American Journal of Epidemiology • Sep 27, 2006

Authors:

Cristina M. Villanueva

Kenneth P. Cantor

Joan O. Grimalt

Abstract

Bladder cancer has been associated with exposure to chlorination by-products in drinking water, and experimental evidence suggests that exposure also occurs through inhalation and dermal absorption. The authors examined whether bladder cancer risk was associated with exposure to trihalomethanes (THM...

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Odds ratio

Bathing

Confidence interval

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