Cancer death rates remain high decades after exposure to arsenic, new study finds

Cancer death rates remain high decades after exposure to arsenic, new study finds
Source: 
UCB News Center
Date Posted: 
Jun 12 2007
Summary: 
Death rates from lung and bladder cancer remained high decades after residents in northern Chile were exposed to high levels of arsenic in their drinking water, according to a new study by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago.