Occupational cancers

Sisko Anttila; Paolo Boffetta

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2825-0

Occupational cancers

Sisko Anttila
, Paolo Boffetta

Family , Population and Preventative Medicine

Helsinki University Central Hospital

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This book is a comprehensive guide to occupational factors of malignant diseases. It discusses potentially work-related malignancies, in the context of exposure assessment, specific clinical and pathological features of occupational cancer and biomarkers of exposure and disease. Epidemiological data about risk ratios of the cancer in question arereviewed for various occupations and with exposure to specific carcinogens, carcinogenic mechanisms, host susceptibility factors (genetic and other) and other environmental and life-style risk factors. Aspects such as surveillance of workers exposed to carcinogens and strategies for prevention of occupational cancer are also discussed.

Original language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag London Ltd
Number of pages	609
ISBN (Electronic)	9781447128250
ISBN (Print)	9781447128243
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2825-0
State	Published - Jan 1 2014

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