Letter/Communication
Drinking Water and Cancer
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), v 15(3), pp 378-380
May 2004
PMID: 15097029
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Abstract
In the November 2003 issue of Epidemiology, we presented a study1 on the association between nitrate in public water supplies and the risk of colorectal cancers. An invited commentary on the topic of drinking water studies, written by Drs. Steenland and Moe,2 noted the difficulties in assessing drinking water exposures retrospectively, and questioned if epidemiologists could be approaching the limit of what we can learn from retrospective designs. We argue that for studies of drinking water contaminants in relation to cancer, retrospective exposure assessment has often been quite adequate, and alternate study designs have limitations that may preclude them from providing a better solution in the near future. [1st paragraph]
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- Title
- Drinking Water and Cancer
- Creators
- Anneclaire De Roos - University of WashingtonMary Ward - National Cancer Institute
- Publication Details
- Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), v 15(3), pp 378-380
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc
- Number of pages
- 3
- Resource Type
- Letter/Communication
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Environmental and Occupational Health
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000221067400027
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-3142698561
- Other Identifier
- 991020099212704721
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