Nov 10, 2006

Breast cancer risk and drinking water contaminated by wastewater:

Background: Drinking water contaminated by wastewater is a potential source of exposure to mammary carcinogens and endocrine disrupting compounds from commercial products and excreted natural and pharmaceutical hormones.
 
We conducted a case-control study to investigate whether exposure to drinking water contaminated by wastewater increases the risk of breast cancer. Full read linked here ehjournal.net