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Disinfection byproducts in drinking water and skin cancer? A hypothesis

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Collaborators include the New Hampshire Skin Cancer Study Group, with special thanks to Michael S. Zens and Mathieu Menard. Financial support This work was supported in part by grants R01CA57494 and P42ES07373 from the National Institutes of Health and by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.

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  1. Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, 1 Medical Center Drive, 7927 Rubin Building, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA

    Margaret R. Karagas

  2. Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

    Cristina M. Villanueva, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen & Manolis Kogevinas

  3. Exposure Science Division, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Cliff P. Weisel

  4. Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Kenneth P. Cantor

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Karagas, M.R., Villanueva, C.M., Nieuwenhuijsen, M. et al. Disinfection byproducts in drinking water and skin cancer? A hypothesis. Cancer Causes Control 19, 547–548 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-008-9116-y

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