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Author Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects.

Title Asbestos : selected cancers / Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practices, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 327 pages) : illustrations
Contents ""FrontMatter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Committee�s Approach to Its Charge and Methods Used in Evaluation""; ""3 Background Information on Asbestos""; ""4 Exposure and Disposition""; ""5 Biological Aspects of Asbestos-Related Diseases""; ""6 Description of Epidemiologic Studies Included in Evidentiary Dataset""; ""7 Pharyngeal Cancer and Asbestos""; ""8 Laryngeal Cancer and Asbestos""; ""9 Esophageal Cancer and Asbestos""; ""10 Stomach Cancer and Asbestos""; ""11 Colorectal Cancer and Asbestos""; ""12 Summary and Recommendations""; ""APPENDIXES""
""APPENDIX A Agendas of Public Meetings Held by the Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects""""APPENDIX B Lineage and Design Properties of Studies on Cohorts Informative for Selected Cancers""; ""APPENDIX C Description of Case-Control Studies of All Selected Cancers as Related to Exposure to Asbestos""; ""APPENDIX D Cohort Results Tables""; ""APPENDIX E Case-Control Results Tables""; ""APPENDIX F Initial Analyses of Available Data Concerning Cancers of Colon and/or Rectum and Asbestos Exposure""; ""APPENDIX G Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects""
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Asbestos -- Physiological effect
Cancer.
Carcinogens.
Health risk assessment.
Environmentally induced diseases.
Asbestosis.
Asbestos -- toxicity
Asbestos -- adverse effects
Pharyngeal Neoplasms -- etiology
Laryngeal Neoplasms -- etiology
Esophageal Neoplasms -- etiology
Stomach Neoplasms -- etiology
Colorectal Neoplasms -- etiology
Neoplasms
Carcinogens
Health Status Indicators
Asbestosis
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Safety.
Asbestos -- Physiological effect
Asbestosis
Cancer
Carcinogens
Environmentally induced diseases
Health risk assessment
Form Electronic book
Author Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice.
LC no. 2006928950
ISBN 0309659523
9780309659529