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. 2003 Feb;111(2):A77–A78. doi: 10.1289/ehp.111-a77c

Cancer in beluga from the St. Lawrence estuary.

Mike O Hammill, Véronique Lesage, Michael C S Kingsley
PMCID: PMC1241373  PMID: 12573920

Abstract

Martineau et al. (2002) reported that St. Lawrence beluga (SLB) have high cancer rates. Unfortunately, errors in their interpretation of the data have led them to overstate the importance of cancer and its links to environmental sources.

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