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Recent advances in occupational cancer.

J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 1984;22(3):195-208. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/85058348
Becker CE; Coye MJ

Abstract: The contribution of occupational and environmental exposures to the etiology of cancer is a topic of considerable scientific and public interest. If an occupational environmental exposure is associated with cancer in man, then both the exposure and the disease are preventable by appropriate protection. In order to enhance the awareness and timeliness of new information concerning occupational cancer, the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine in conjunction with the Northern California Occupational Health Center and the National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health, the American Cancer Society sponsored a two day meeting in San Francisco at the end of 1983. Five of the presentations are highlighted in this review. In addition, twenty special questions of clinical relevance concerning occupational and environmental cancers are reviewed with the consensus answers given.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/TRANSMISSION Air Pollutants, Occupational/POISONING Aluminum/POISONING Animal Asbestos/ADVERSE EFFECTS Automobile Exhaust/POISONING Benzene/POISONING *Carcinogens Epidemiologic Methods Human Lead Poisoning/COMPLICATIONS Lighting/ADVERSE EFFECTS Maximum Permissible Exposure Level Neoplasms/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*ETIOLOGY Occupational Diseases/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*ETIOLOGY Petroleum/ADVERSE EFFECTS Rats Registries Sister Chromatid Exchange United States Vinyl Chloride/POISONING JOURNAL ARTICLE

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