ArticleBiomolecules2021
Influence of the Levels of Arsenic, Cadmium, Mercury and Lead on Overall Survival in Lung Cancer.
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- Arsenic and Human Health: New Molecular Mechanisms For Arsenic-Induced Cancers.Current pollution reports · 2023Article
- Differences of genomic alterations and heavy metals in non-small cell lung cancer with different histological subtypes.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023Article
- Heavy Metals and Human Health: Possible Exposure Pathways and the Competition for Protein Binding Sites.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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17 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The effects of heavy metals on cancer risk have been widely studied in recent decades, but there is limited data on the effects of these elements on cancer survival. In this research, we examined whether blood concentrations of the heavy metals arsenic, cadmium, mercury and lead were associated with the overall survival of lung cancer patients. The study group consisted of 336 patients with lung cancer who were prospectively observed. Blood concentrations of heavy metals were measured to study the relationship between their levels and overall survival using Cox proportional hazards analysis. The hazard ratio of death from all causes was 0.99 (
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