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ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2003

Cancer in beluga from the St. Lawrence estuary.

Mike O Hammill, Véronique Lesage, Michael C S Kingsley

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Article in Environmental health perspectives, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mike O Hammill
Véronique Lesage
Michael C S Kingsley

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Martineau et al. (2002) reported that St. Lawrence beluga (SLB) have high cancer rates. Unfortunately, errors in their interpretation of the data have led them to overstate the importance of cancer and its links to environmental sources.

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PMID12573920
PMCPMC1241373

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