*Editorial* **Editorial to Special Issue Toxic Metals, Chronic Diseases and Related Cancers**

**Soisungwan Satarug**

> Kidney Disease Research Collaborative, Centre for Health Services Research, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4102, Australia; sj.satarug@yahoo.com.au

In this Special Issue, entitled "Toxic Metals, Chronic Diseases and Related Cancers", there are 19 published manuscripts, including reports of environmental exposure monitoring [1,2] and food safety surveillance [3,4]; reviews focusing on health risks of chronic exposure to cadmium and lead [5], experimental studies on the toxicity of cadmium, lead or mercury in gonads [6], and evidence that cadmium exposure may be one of the environmental factors contributing to hyperglycemia, insulin resistance and diabetes [7]; a mathematical model of the oral glucose tolerance test [8]; epidemiological studies examining health impacts of cadmium, lead, and mercury [9–15]; and reports concerning the immunotoxicity of high exposure to lead [16], the effects of cadmium on protein reabsorption by kidney tubular epithelial cells [17], the cytotoxicity of hexavalent chromium [18], and the carcinogenicity of aluminum in vivo [19].
