Carcinogen Risk Assessment

ISBN-13: 9781468454864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 220 str.

Curtis C. Travis

Spis treści

I. Overview Of Risk Assessment.- 1. The Risk Analysis Process.- 2. Current Views of the Biology of Cancer.- II. The Use Of Scientific Data In Risk Assessment.- 3. Use of Short-Term Test Data in Risk Analysis of Chemical Carcinogens.- 4. Use of Animal Bioassay Data in Carcinogen Risk Assessment.- III. Exposure Assessment.- 5. Assessing the Extent of Human Exposure to Organics.- 6. Partitioning Models.- 7. Pharmacokinetics.- IV. Special Issues In Risk Assessment.- 8. Biologically-Based Models to Predict Cancer Risk.- 9. Animal Extrapolation and the Challenge of Human Interindividual Variation.- 10. Biological Markers in Risk Assessment.- V. Risk Management.- 11. Managing Environmental Risks.- 12. Acceptable Risk.- 13. Risk Perception.- 14. Risk Assessment and Comparisons: An Introduction.- 15. Risk Communication.