Chronic exposures to heavy metals via tobacco smoking and professional exposure may increase the risk of head and neck cancer, although the epidemiologic evidence is limited by problems of low…
Background Immigrant farmworkers are a population at risk for numerous environmental and occupational exposures. The metals arsenic, lead, mercury, and cadmium are known neurotoxins to which workers can be exposed…
The latest research outcomes indicate that metallothionein (MT) levels in peripheral blood and serum from cancer patients can provide many interesting information about type or clinical stage of the disease,…
Aim: We aimed to assess relevance of mineral, trace element and heavy metal levels in patients with malignant gliomas. Methods: In this study, erythrocyte catalase (CAT), and carbonic anhydrase (CA),…