- 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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- About this book
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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 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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Historical Overview of Occupational Cancer Research
Pages 1-20
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Genetics and Gene-Environment Interactions
Pages 21-31
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Mechanisms of Environmental and Occupational Carcinogenesis
Pages 33-48
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Cancer of the Oral Cavity, Pharynx, and Nasopharynx
Pages 49-106
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Pancreatic Cancer
Pages 107-126
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Occupational Cancers
- Editors
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- Sisko Anttila
- Paolo Boffetta
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag London
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag London
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4471-2825-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4471-2825-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4471-6903-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 609
- Number of Illustrations
- 44 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
- Topics
