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RECORD NUMBER: 490 OF 4566Main Title | Case-Control Cancer Mortality Study and Chlorination of Drinking Water in Louisiana. | |||||||||||
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Author | Gottlieb, Marise S. ; Carr, Jean K. ; | |||||||||||
CORP Author | Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA. School of Medicine.;Health Effects Research Lab., Research Triangle Park, NC. | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1982 | |||||||||||
Report Number | EPA-R-805110; EPA-600/J-81-376; | |||||||||||
Stock Number | PB83-189134 | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Chlorination ; Potable water ; Malignant neoplasms ; Louisiana ; Mortality ; Mississippi River ; Reprints ; Cancer ; Drinking water ; Water pollution effects(Humans) | |||||||||||
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Collation | 9p | |||||||||||
Abstract | Several Louisiana parished (counties) using the Mississippi River for their source of public drinking water have the highest mortality rates (1950-69) in the United States for several cancers. Therefore, a case-control mortality study on cancer of the liver, brain, pancreas, bladder, kidney, prostate, rectum, colon, esophagus, stomach, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple myeloma, leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, lung, breast and malignant melanoma, from 1960 to 1975 in South Louisiana parishes grouped for similarities in industrial characteristics, having approximately equal exposure of the population to surface and groundwater, was conducted. |