• DOI:10.1289/ehp.8035
Corpus ID: 686669

Serum Cadmium Levels in Pancreatic Cancer Patients from the East Nile Delta Region of Egypt

@article{Kriegel2006SerumCL,
  title={Serum Cadmium Levels in Pancreatic Cancer Patients from the East Nile Delta Region of Egypt},
  author={A. M. Kriegel and A. Soliman and Q. Zhang and N. Elghawalby and F. Ezzat and A. Soultan and M. Abdel-Wahab and O. Fathy and G. Ebidi and N. Bassiouni and S. Hamilton and J. Abbruzzese and Michelle R. Lacey and D. Blake},
  journal={Environmental Health Perspectives},
  year={2006},
  volume={114},
  pages={113 - 119}
}

• A. M. Kriegel, A. Soliman, +11 authors D. Blake
• Published 2006
• Medicine
• Environmental Health Perspectives

The northeast Nile Delta region exhibits a high incidence of early-onset pancreatic cancer. It is well documented that this region has one of the highest levels of pollution in Egypt. Epidemiologic studies have suggested that cadmium, a prevalent pollutant in the northeast Nile Delta region, plays a role in the development of pancreatic cancer. Objective: We aimed to assess serum cadmium levels as markers of exposure in pancreatic cancer patients and noncancer comparison subjects from the same… Expand

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