Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution and Human Cancer

ISBN-13: 9783642781995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 162 str.

Lorenzo Tomatis

Opis

This monograph is possibly the most comprehensive review of available information on sources of air pollution and the risk for cancer that it may entail. It combines contributions by internationally recognized experts in different disciplines, ranging from epidemiology to genetics and carcinogenesis.

Spis treści

Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution and Cancer: An Old and New Problem.- Sources, Nature and Levels of Air Pollutants.- Sources, Nature and Levels of Indoor Air Pollutants.- Environmental Carcinogens: Assessment of Exposure and Effect.- Experimental Evidence for the Carconogenicity of Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollutants.- Epidemiological Evidence on Indoor Air Pollution and Cancer.- Epidemiological Evidence on Outdoor Air Pollution and Cancer.- The Economics of Controlling Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution.