Epidemiology and Quantitation of Environmental Risk in Humans from Radiation and Other Agents - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1461594464 ISBN 13: 9781461594468

Publisher: Springer, 2013

Synopsis

Radiation Carcinogenesis.- Strategy of Assessment of Health Risks in Environmental and Occupational Health.- Choice of Comparison Groups in Environmental Studies and Dealing with Background Morbidity in Various Subpopulations.- The Probability of Causation: An Approach to the Problem of Toxic Torts, Especially with Respect to Exposures to Ionizing Radiation.- The Carcinogenic Effects of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Irradiation.- Dose-Response in Radiation Carcinogenesis: Animal Studies.- Dose-Response in Radiation Carcinogenesis: Human Studies.- Fundamentals of Dosimetry and Microdosimetry and the Relative Biological Effectiveness of Ionizing Radiations.- Critical Review of Case-Control and Cohort Study Methodologies.- In Vitro Malignant Transformation - a Multi-Stepped Process.- Problems in Dose Response and Risk Assessment: The Example of Asbestos.- Role of DNA Damage and Repair in the Mutagenesis of Human Cells by Carcinogens.- Variations in DNA Repair Among People.- Cancer-Prone Families: A Resource for Etiologic Studies.- The Role of Human RAS Proto-Oncogenes in Cancer.- Hereditary and Familial Disorders Linking Cancer Proneness with Abnormal Carcinogen Response and Faulty DNA Metabolism.- Application of Statistical Methods to Experimental Radiation Studies and to Radiation Epidemiology.- Biological Monitoring Studies in Occupational and Environmental Health.- The Recognition of New Kinds of Occupational Toxicity.- Occupational Exposure to Ionizing Radiation.- Non-Occupational Exposure to Ionizing Radiation.- Risk Assessment of Low Doses of Radiation and Chemicals.- Genetic Effects of Radiation.- On the Effects of Exposure to Radon Daughters in Metal Mines and in Homes.- Atomic Bomb Survivors: Epidemiology and Dose Estimation.- Epidemiology of Microwave Radiation Effects in Humans.- Establishing the Link between Human Proto-Oncogenes and Growth Factors.- Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers: A Contrast in Solar Radiation Carcinogenesis.- Epidemiological Approach to Breast Cancer Etiology.- Epidemiologic Studies of Chemotherapy-Related Acute Leukemia.- The Central Nervous System and in Utero Exposure to Ionizing Radiation: The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Experiences.- Unanswered Issues in Low-Level Chemical Pollution: The Case of Dioxins and Related Compounds.- Radiation Exposure and Levels of Occupational Safety.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1461594464
• ISBN 13: 9781461594468
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 596
• Editor: Castellani A.