Background: The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between exposure to
cadmium and bladder cancer risk. Methods: We conducted a case–control study in Belgium …

Bladder cancer is a significant disease, the rates of which have increased over the few last
years. However, its etiology remains as yet undefined. Cadmium, a widespread …

Prior investigations identified an association between low-level blood arsenic (As) and
bladder cancer risk among Tunisian men but questions remain regarding confounding by …

Background: Rates of renal cancer have increased steadily during the past two decades,
and these increases are not explicable solely by advances in imaging modalities. Cadmium …

Background Cadmium is a ubiquitous environmental pollutant, which accumulates in the
human body such that 24-h urinary excretion is a biomarker of lifetime exposure. We aimed …

Background Cadmium is classified as a human lung carcinogen based on evidence from
high-exposure occupational settings. Though cadmium has no physiological role, increasing …

Objectives To evaluate possible sources of exposure to heavy metals in the general
population, and to determine the association between urinary heavy metals and urothelial …

Background Recent studies are indicative of substantial progress in understanding the dose–
response relation between the incidence of total and lung cancer and environmental …

A role of cadmium exposure in prostate cancer etiology has been suggested by
epidemiologic and laboratory studies, but conclusive evidence on this topic is still lacking …

Preliminary data are reported from a study of 269 cadmium-nickel battery factory workers
and 94 cadmium-copper alloy factory workers. The target group comprises all workers with …