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The chapter deals with the occurrence of a selection of anticancer drugs in different water environments: hospital wastewater, wastewater treatment plant influents and effluents, surface water, sea water, and drinking water. Unfortunately, no data are available for groundwater up to now. The chapter presents and discusses measured environmental concentrations of anticancer drugs collected in 56 peer-reviewed papers referring to investigations carried out in 18 countries all over the world. It focuses on the variability of observed concentrations in the different environments, and it highlights the importance of planning efficient sampling strategies in order to obtain representative water samples. |
