Mahavir Cancer Sansthan and Research Centre, Patna, Bihar, India
Research Article
Blood Arsenic contamination causing Breast Cancer Risk in Exposed Population of Bihar
Author(s): Yerravarapu Vamsi Krishna, Chandrajeet Kumar and Arun Kumar*
Groundwater arsenic poisoning in the recent times has posed serious health hazards to human beings. After the long-term exposure to arsenic, it has also caused disease of cancer in them. Breast cancer is the disease, which has become a fast-growing disease in the women in the present times. The exposed population is posed to hormonal imbalance due to arsenic poisoning which causes breast carcinogenesis.
In the present study, n=203 women subjects were voluntarily selected for breast cancer study and their blood samples were collected for arsenic estimation by Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer against the control female subjects n=100.
The study reveals that there is significant elevation in the blood arsenic concentration in the breast cancer patients. Out of n=203, female breast cancer patients, n=148 subject’s blood had significant blood arsenic concentrat.. View More»
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