Carcinogen Risk Assessment
Published on 13. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 220 pages
978-1-4684-5486-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
5 s/w Abbildungen
X, 220 p. 5 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4684-5486-4 (9781468454864)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4684-5484-0
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Additional editions
Curtis C. Travis
Carcinogen Risk Assessment
Book
03/1988
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
€85.55
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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.