Asbestos : selected cancers / Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.).

Contributor:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice.

National Academies Press (U.S.)

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asbestos--Physiological effect.

Asbestos.

Cancer.

Carcinogens.

Health risk assessment.

Environmentally induced diseases.

Asbestosis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In conjunction with drafting comprehensive legislation concerning compensation for health effects related to asbestos exposure (the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Act), the Senate Committee on the Judiciary directed the Institute of Medicine to assemble the Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects. This committee was charged with addressing whether asbestos exposure is causally related to adverse health consequences in addition to asbestosis, mesothelioma, and lung cancer. Asbestos: Selected Cancers presents the committee's comprehensive distillation of the peer-reviewed scientific and medical literature regarding association between asbestos and colorectal, laryngeal, esophageal, pharyngeal, and stomach cancers.

Contents:

FrontMatter

Reviewers

Contents

Summary

1 Introduction

2 Committee's Approach to Its Charge and Methods Used in Evaluation

3 Background Information on Asbestos

4 Exposure and Disposition

5 Biological Aspects of Asbestos-Related Diseases

6 Description of Epidemiologic Studies Included in Evidentiary Dataset

7 Pharyngeal Cancer and Asbestos

8 Laryngeal Cancer and Asbestos

9 Esophageal Cancer and Asbestos

10 Stomach Cancer and Asbestos

11 Colorectal Cancer and Asbestos

12 Summary and Recommendations

APPENDIXES

APPENDIX A Agendas of Public Meetings Held by the Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects

APPENDIX B Lineage and Design Properties of Studies on Cohorts Informative for Selected Cancers

APPENDIX C Description of Case-Control Studies of All Selected Cancers as Related to Exposure to Asbestos

APPENDIX D Cohort Results Tables

APPENDIX E Case-Control Results Tables

APPENDIX F Initial Analyses of Available Data Concerning Cancers of Colon and/or Rectum and Asbestos Exposure

APPENDIX G Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610567454

9781280567452

1280567457

9780309659529

0309659523

OCLC:

73316462