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This digital document is an article from Journal of Environmental Health, published by National Environmental Health Association on October 1, 2008. The length of the article is 4523 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the author: The literature on environmental arsenic exposure and childhood cancer risk comprises 1) studies seeking childhood cancers among arsenic-exposed populations, 2) studies seeking arsenic exposure among childhood cancer cases, and 3) studies seeking associations in populations with both arsenic exposures and childhood cancer cases. No skin cancers were found in dermal examinations of over 25,000 children in Southwest Taiwan or West Bengal, India, with high drinkingwater arsenic levels. Childhood cancer types were not different for those living near a Swedish smelter. In Montreal, Canada, children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia did not have drinking-water arsenic more frequently either prenatal or postnatal, and British children with cancer did not have early exposure to environmental sources of airborne arsenic. Neither hair arsenic levels in Woburn, Massachusetts, nor water arsenic levels in Fallon, Nevada, were elevated for children with leukemia. The literature, while limited, does not seem to support an association between arsenic exposure and childhood cancers.Citation DetailsTitle: Arsenic exposure and childhood cancer--a systematic review of the literature.(FEATURES)(Report)Author: Arnold EngelPublication: Journal of Environmental Health (Magazine/Journal)Date: October 1, 2008Publisher: National Environmental Health AssociationVolume: 71 Issue: 3 Page: 12(5)Article Type: ReportDistributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning