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Title:

Cancer as an environmental disease / edited by P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Kluwer Academic Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xix, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Cancer--Environmental aspects.
Carcinogenesis
Neoplasms--etiology.
Carcinogens, Environmental--adverse effects.
Environmental health.

Other Authors:

Nicolopoulou-Stamati, P.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Re-evaluation of priorities in addressing the cancer issue: conclusions, strategies, prospects / P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati, C.V. Howard, and B.A.J. Gaudet. Incorporating the environmental context in the study of cancer - issues and implications / A. Novogradec and S. Harris Ali -- Could the increase in cancer incidence be related to recent environmental changes? / C.V. Howard and J.A. Newby -- The role of DNA damage and DNA-damaging environmental chemicals in carcinogens / K. Peltonen -- Gene-environment interaction in environmental carcinogens / H. Autrip -- Health impact assessment of accidents with environmental carcinogens - a case study of the Belgian PCB/Dioxin incident in 1999 / L. Hens -- Anti-oxidants and chemopreventive agents as cancer enhancing agent: the other side of the coin / S.Z. Abdel-Rahman, M. Peolini, and M.S. Legator -- Legislative proposals for reversing the cancer epidemic and controlling run-away industrial technologies / Samuel S. Epstein -- Re-evaluation of priorities in addressing the cancer issue: conclusions, strategies, prospects / P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati, C.V. Howard, and B.A.J. Gaudet.

Series:

Environmental science and technology library ; v. 20

ISBN:

9780306485138 (e-book)
0306485133 (e-book)
9781402020193 (alk. paper)
1402020198 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55019170

LCCN:

2004042147

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)