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CISDOC database
Document ID (ISN) | 55850 |
CIS number |
91-848 |
ISBN(s) |
0-8247-8239-9 |
Year |
1990 |
Convention or series no. |
Occupational safety and health 20
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Author(s) |
Morris S.C. |
Title |
Cancer risk assessment: a quantitative approach |
Bibliographic information |
Marcel Dekker Inc., 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA, 1990. vi, 416p. Bibl. Index. Price: USD 99.75 (USA and Canada), USD 119.50 (all other countries) |
Abstract |
This book is a guide to interdisciplinary practice in cancer risk assessment. It includes much practical data and shows how each discipline relates to the whole and inter-relates with other contributing disciplines. Contents: introduction; exposure and dose assessment - general issues, measurement of exposure and dose, modelling exposure, pharmacokinetics; dose-response assessment - toxicology, extrapolation from animals, structure-activity relationships and short-term bioassay, epidemiology, combined approaches to dose-response; risk characterisation and implications - characterisation of uncertainty, implications for risk management, future directions for quantitative health risk analysis. |
Descriptors (primary) |
hazard evaluation; neoplasms; risk factors |
Descriptors (secondary) |
toxicology; exposure evaluation; dose-response relationship; experimental pathology; extrapolation animal man; epidemiologic study |
Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
Country / State or Province | USA |
Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
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Browse category(ies) |
Risk evaluation
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