Samuel C Morris

Cancer Risk Assessment

A Quantitative Approach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on the National Academy of Sciences approach to quantitative risk assessment. Emphasizes how an accurate assessment of cancer risk must draw on a wide range of disciplines, such as biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and the social sciences. Provides tables of Poisson confidence limit fa

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780367403188
• ISBN-10: 0367403188
• Artikelnr.: 58059781

Autorenporträt

Morris\, Samuel C.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
I. INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction
2. The Human Cancer Situation
3. Hazard Identification
II. EXPOSURE AND DOSE ASSESSMENT
4. Exposure Assessment: General Issues
5. Measurement of Exposure and Dose
6. Modeling Exposure
7. Pharmacokinetics
III. DOSE
RESPONSE ASSESSMENT
8. Toxicology
9. Mouse to Man: Extrapolation from Animals
10. Quick Methods: Structure
Activity Relationships and Short
Term Bioassay
11. Epidemiology
12. Combined Approaches to Dose
Response: Putting It All Together
IV. RISK CHARACTERIZATION AND IMPLICATIONS
13. Characterization of Uncertainty
14. Risk Characterization, Communication, and Perception
15. Quality Assurance, Validation, and Peer Review
16. Implications for Risk Management
17. Future Directions for Quantitative Health Risk Analysis
Index.