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Article: Nitrate In Drinking Water Increases Risk.(bladder cancer)
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- May 10, 2001
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2001 MAY 10 - (NewsRx Network) -- Nitrate in drinking water is associated with an increased risk for bladder cancer, according to a University of Iowa (UT) study that looked at cancer incidence among nearly 22,000 Iowa women.
The study results suggest that even low level exposures to nitrate over many years could be problematic in terms of certain types of cancer, said Peter Weyer, PhD, associate director of the UT Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (CHEEC) and one of the study's lead authors. The study is published in the May 2001 issue of the journal Epidemiology.
"The positive association we found between nitrate contamination ...