Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practices, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
""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""
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Asbestos-- Physiological effect.
Asbestosis.
Cancer.
Carcinogens.
Environmentally induced diseases.
Health risk assessment.
Asbestos-- adverse effects.
Asbestos-- toxicity.
Colorectal Neoplasms-- etiology.
Esophageal Neoplasms-- etiology.
Laryngeal Neoplasms-- etiology.
Pharyngeal Neoplasms-- etiology.
Stomach Neoplasms-- etiology.
Asbestos-- Physiological effect.
Asbestosis.
Cancer.
Carcinogens.
Environmentally induced diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS-- Safety.
Health risk assessment.
HEA-- 021000
363
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17/91
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RC775
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A8
I6
2006eb
2007
D-055
QV
610
I59a
2006
Institute of Medicine (U.S.)., Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.)., Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice.