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Yu Chen, MPH and Habibul Ahsan, MD, MMedSc

The authors are with the Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City. Habibul Ahsan is also with the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Habibul Ahsan, MD, MMedSc, Department of Epidemiology, 722 W 168th St, Room 720G, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: habibul.ahsan{at}columbia.edu).

We assessed the potential burden of internal cancers due to arsenic exposure in Bangladesh. We estimated excess lifetime risks of death from liver, bladder, and lung cancers using an exposure distribution, death probabilities, and cancer mortality rates from Bangladesh and dose-specific relative risk estimates from Taiwan. Results indicated at least a doubling of lifetime mortality risk from liver, bladder, and lung cancers (229.6 vs 103.5 per 100 000 population) in Bangladesh owing to arsenic in drinking water.

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