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Carcinogen Risk Assessment

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Curtis C. Travis

    1. Office of Risk Analysis, Health and Safety Research Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA

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Part of the book series: Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis (CIRA, volume 3)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Overview of Risk Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Risk Analysis Process

      • Elizabeth L. Anderson
      Pages 3-17

    3. Current Views of the Biology of Cancer

      • Ronald W. Hart, Angelo Turturro
      Pages 19-33

  3. The Use of Scientific Data in Risk Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Use of Short-Term Test Data in Risk Analysis of Chemical Carcinogens

      • W. Gary Flamm, Robert J. Scheuplin
      Pages 37-48

    3. Use of Animal Bioassay Data in Carcinogen Risk Assessment

      • Elizabeth K. Weisburger
      Pages 49-58

  4. Exposure Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Assessing the Extent of Human Exposure to Organics

      • Curtis C. Travis, Holly A. Hattemer-Frey
      Pages 61-75

    3. Partitioning Models

      • Donald Mackay, Sally Paterson
      Pages 77-86

    4. Pharmacokinetics

      • Curtis C. Travis
      Pages 87-102

  5. Special Issues in Risk Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Biologically-Based Models to Predict Cancer Risk

      • Gail Charnley, Todd W. Thorslund
      Pages 105-113

    3. Animal Extrapolation and the Challenge of Human Interindividual Variation

      • Edward J. Calabrese
      Pages 115-122

    4. Biological Markers in Risk Assessment

      • Frederica P. Perera
      Pages 123-138

  6. Risk Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Managing Environmental Risks

      • Lester B. Lave
      Pages 141-156

    3. Acceptable Risk

      • Chris Whipple
      Pages 157-170

    4. Risk Perception

      • Paul Slovic
      Pages 171-181

    5. Risk Assessment and Comparisons

      • Richard Wilson, E. A. C. Crouch
      Pages 183-192
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Office of Risk Analysis, Health and Safety Research Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA

    Curtis C. Travis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Carcinogen Risk Assessment

  • Editors: Curtis C. Travis

  • Series Title: Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5484-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-5486-4Published: 13 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-5484-0Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 220

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Oncology, Environmental Management

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