
Carcinogen Risk Assessment
Curtis C. Travis(Editor)
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Published on 31. March 1988
Book
Hardback
X, 220 pages
978-0-306-42848-7 (ISBN)
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Series
Edition
1988
Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Publishing group
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
5
5 s/w Abbildungen
5 Illustrations, black and white; X, 220 p. 5 illus.
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Width: 0 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-306-42848-7 (9780306428487)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4684-5484-0
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Content
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.