Overview
Multidisciplinary view of occupational factors of cancer for readers with different backgrounds
Covers epidemiology, clinical features and pathology, as well as molecular carcinogenic mechanisms and biomarkers
Emphasizes prevention at an individual level as well as in populations and familiarizes readers with preventive strategies
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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 are reviewed 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.
Occupational Cancers is aimed at oncologists, pathologists, residents in training, clinical researchers, clinicians in occupational health, epidemiologists, pulmonologists, lawyers and public health officials.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paolo Boffetta, MD, MPH
Bluhdorn Professor of International Community Medicine
Director, Institute for Translational Epidemiology
Associate Director for Population Sciences, Tisch Cancer Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
One Gustave L. Levy Place
New York, NY, USA
Sisko Anttila MD, PhD
Helsinki University Central Hospital, Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, Laboratory Services, HUSLAB, and
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Occupational Cancers
Editors: Sisko Anttila, Paolo Boffetta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2825-0
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6903-1Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-2825-0Published: 28 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 609
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oncology, Pathology, Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine, Epidemiology, Public Health, Pneumology/Respiratory System