title: Head and neck cancer due to heavy metal exposure via tobacco smoking and professional exposure: a review.
abstract: 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 study power and inadequate adjustment for tobacco and professional exposure use. Numerous scientific reviews have examined the association of various heavy metals exposure with respiratory cancer as well as other cancer types, but few have been published on head and neck cancer. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to review the head and neck tract cancer-related data on exposure to heavy metals via smoking and working exposure and to study the major mechanisms underlying some toxic metals carcinogenesis.
authors: Marine Ecotoxicology, UR 09-03, Sfax University, IPEIS, BP 805-3018 Sfax, Tunisia. rimkhlifi@yahoo.fr
authors: Rim
authors: R
authors: Khlifi
authors: Amel
authors: A
authors: Hamza-Chaffai
mesh_terms: D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational / Q000378:metabolism / Q000633:toxicity; D002104:Cadmium / Q000378:metabolism / Q000633:toxicity; D002273:Carcinogens / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000633:toxicity; D002857:Chromium / Q000378:metabolism / Q000633:toxicity; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D019216:Metals, Heavy / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000633:toxicity; D009532:Nickel / Q000378:metabolism / Q000633:toxicity; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000453:epidemiology; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000032:analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D002273:Carcinogens; D019216:Metals, Heavy; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution; D002104:Cadmium; D002857:Chromium; D009532:Nickel