Carcinogen risk assessment

Author(s)

• Travis, C. C.

Bibliographic Information

Carcinogen risk assessment

edited by Curtis C. Travis

（Contemporary issues in risk analysis, v. 3）

Plenum Press, c1988

Note

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Table of Contents

I. Overview Of Risk Assessment.- 1. The Risk Analysis Process.- 2. Current Views of the Biology of Cancer.- II. The Use Of Scientific Data In Risk Assessment.- 3. Use of Short-Term Test Data in Risk Analysis of Chemical Carcinogens.- 4. Use of Animal Bioassay Data in Carcinogen Risk Assessment.- III. Exposure Assessment.- 5. Assessing the Extent of Human Exposure to Organics.- 6. Partitioning Models.- 7. Pharmacokinetics.- IV. Special Issues In Risk Assessment.- 8. Biologically-Based Models to Predict Cancer Risk.- 9. Animal Extrapolation and the Challenge of Human Interindividual Variation.- 10. Biological Markers in Risk Assessment.- V. Risk Management.- 11. Managing Environmental Risks.- 12. Acceptable Risk.- 13. Risk Perception.- 14. Risk Assessment and Comparisons: An Introduction.- 15. Risk Communication.

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• NCID: BA0452667X
• ISBN:
  • 0306428482
• LCCN: 87037403
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 210 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RC268.65
  • DC19 : 616.99/4071
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Carcinogenicity testing
  • LCSH : Health risk assessment
  • LCSH : Cancer -- Prevention
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01462719