Risk-based indicators of Canadians' exposures to environmental carcinogens

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Setton, Eleanor ^a   Hystad, Perry ^b   Poplawski, Karla ^a   Cheasley, Roslyn ^a   Cervantes Larios, Alejandro ^b   Keller, C Peter ^a   Demers, Paul A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Occupational Cancer Research Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air; Beverages; Canada; Cancer; Carcinogens; Dust; Environment; Food; Policy; Risk; Water

Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE; ARSENIC; ASBESTOS; BENZENE; CARCINOGEN; CHROMIUM; DRINKING WATER;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CANCER; CARCINOGEN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RISK; POLICY MAKING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RISK FACTOR;

AIR; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; CANADA; CANCER RISK; DATA BASE; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; OUTDOOR AIR; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST;

CANADA; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CANADA;

EID: 84876264909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-12-15     Document Type: Article

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