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Overview

Kenneth P. Cantor is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with particular attention to health, toxicology, and mutagenesis, cancer research, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, pathology and forensic medicine, and biochemistry.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics including carcinogens and genotoxicity assessment, water treatment and disinfection, lymphoma diagnosis and treatment, sulfur compounds in biology, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research, pesticide exposure and toxicity, and pesticide and herbicide environmental studies.

Recent publications by Kenneth P. Cantor include:

  • Pesticide use and risk of Hodgkin lymphoma: results from the North American Pooled Project (NAPP), 2020, Cancer Causes & Control
  • Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water and Bladder Cancer: Evaluation of Risk Modification by Common Genetic Polymorphisms in Two Case-Control Studies, 2022, Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Insecticide use and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes: A subset meta-analysis of the North American Pooled Project, 2020, International Journal of Cancer
  • Prediagnostic serum concentrations of organochlorine pesticides and non-Hodgkin lymphoma: A nested case-control study in the Norwegian Janus Serum Bank Cohort, 2020, Environmental Research
  • Lifetime exposure to disinfection by-products and risk of cancer at six anatomic sites in Iowa, USA, 2020, ISEE Conference Abstracts

Kenneth P. Cantor has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors including Aaron Blair, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Mary H. Ward, Stella Koutros, and Nathaniel Rothman.

Key venues where their research has been published include UNC Libraries, ISEE Conference Abstracts, Environmental Health Perspectives, Cancer Causes & Control, and International Journal of Cancer.

Best Publications

  • Some drinking-water disinfectants and contaminants, including arsenic

    W. M Anders;R. J. Bull;K. P. Cantor;D. Chakraborti

  • Bladder Cancer and Exposure to Water Disinfection By-Products through Ingestion, Bathing, Showering, and Swimming in Pools

    Cristina M. Villanueva;Kenneth P. Cantor;Joan O. Grimalt;Nuria Malats

  • Disinfection byproducts and bladder cancer: a pooled analysis.

    Cristina M. Villanueva;Kenneth P. Cantor;Sylvaine Cordier;Jouni J. K. Jaakkola

  • Drinking water and cancer

    Kenneth P. Cantor

  • Drinking water source and chlorination byproducts. I. Risk of bladder cancer.

    Kenneth P. Cantor;Charks F. Lynch;Mariana Hildesheim;Mustafa Dosemeci

  • Pesticides and other agricultural risk factors for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among men in Iowa and Minnesota.

    Kenneth P. Cantor;Aaron Blair;George Everett;Robert Gibson

  • Pesticide Exposures and Other Agricultural Risk Factors for Leukemia among Men in Iowa and Minnesota

    L M Brown;A Blair;R Gibson;G D Everett

  • Drinking water source and chlorination byproducts. II. Risk of colon and rectal cancers.

    Mariana E. Hildesheim;Kenneth P. Cantor;Charles F. Lynch;Mustafa Dosemeci

  • A case-control study of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) in eastern Nebraska.

    Shelia Hoar Zahm;Dennis D. Weisenburger;Paula A. Babbitt;Robert C. Saal

  • Integrative assessment of multiple pesticides as risk factors for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma among men

    A J De Roos;S H Zahm;K P Cantor;D D Weisenburger

  • Cancer among farmers. A review.

    Aaron Blair;H Malker;Kenneth P Cantor;L Burmeister

  • Etiologic Heterogeneity Among Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Subtypes: The InterLymph Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Subtypes Project

    Lindsay M. Morton;Susan L. Slager;James R. Cerhan;Sophia S. Wang

  • Drinking Water Nitrate and the Risk of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

    Mary H. Ward;Steven D. Mark;Kenneth P. Cantor;Dennis D. Weisenburger

  • Case-Control Study of Bladder Cancer and Arsenic in Drinking Water

    Michael N. Bates;Allan H. Smith;Kenneth P. Cantor

  • Bladder cancer, drinking water source, and tap water consumption: a case-control study.

    Cantor Kp;Hoover R;Hartge P;Mason Tj

  • Selenium in forage crops and cancer mortality in U.S. counties.

    Larry C. Clark;Kenneth P. Cantor;W. H. Allaway

  • Active smoking and secondhand smoke increase breast cancer risk: the report of the Canadian Expert Panel on Tobacco Smoke and Breast Cancer Risk (2009)

    Johnson Kc;Miller Ab;Collishaw Ne;Palmer

  • Lifestyle and anthropometric risk factors for prostate cancer in a cohort of Iowa men

    Shannon D Putnam;James R Cerhan;James R Cerhan;Alexander S Parker;Gregory D Bianchi

  • Polymorphisms in GSTT1, GSTZ1, AND CYP2E1, disinfection by-products, and risk of bladder cancer in Spain

    Kenneth P. Cantor;Cristina M. Villanueva;Debra T. Silverman;Jonine D. Figueroa

  • A nested case-control study of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and serum organochlorine residues

    Nathaniel Rothman;Kenneth P Cantor;Aaron Blair;David Bush

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron Blair
Aaron Blair National Institutes of Health
Charles F. Lynch
Charles F. Lynch University of Iowa
Debra T. Silverman
Debra T. Silverman National Institutes of Health
Nathaniel Rothman
Nathaniel Rothman National Institutes of Health
Shelia Hoar Zahm
Shelia Hoar Zahm National Institutes of Health
Núria Malats
Núria Malats Spanish National Cancer Research Centre
James R. Cerhan
James R. Cerhan Mayo Clinic
Mustafa Dosemeci
Mustafa Dosemeci National Institutes of Health
Manolis Kogevinas
Manolis Kogevinas Pompeu Fabra University
Margaret R. Karagas
Margaret R. Karagas Dartmouth College

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