BookSisko L. Anttila, Paolo Boffetta, editors.
Summary: This book is a comprehensive guide to occupational factors of malignant diseases. It discusses potentially work-related malignancies, in the context of exposure assessment, specific clinical and pathological features of occupational cancer and biomarkers of exposure and disease. Epidemiological data about risk ratios of the cancer in question are reviewed for various occupations and with exposure to specific carcinogens, carcinogenic mechanisms, host susceptibility factors (genetic and other) and other environmental and life-style risk factors. Aspects such as surveillance of workers exposed to carcinogens, and strategies for prevention of occupational cancer are also discussed. Occupational Cancers is aimed at oncologists, pathologists, residents in training, clinical researchers, clinicians in occupational health, epidemiologists, pulmonologists, lawyers and public health officials.
Contents:
Historical Overview of Occupational Cancer Research
Genetics and Gene-Environment Interactions
Mechanisms of Environmental and Occupational Carcinogenesis
Cancer of the Oral Cavity, Pharynx and Nasopharynx
Pancreatic Cancer
Cancers of the Intestine, Liver and Biliary Tract
Sinonasal Cancer
Laryngeal Cancer
Lung cancer (exposure assessment, pathology, epidemiology)
Lung Cancer: Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
Lung Cancer: Genetic Susceptibility
Lung Cancer: Molecular Markers
Malignant Mesothelioma: Epidemiology
Malignant Mesothelioma: Clinical and Imaging Findings
Malignant Mesothelioma: Asbestos Exposure
Malignant Mesothelioma: Pathology
Malignant Mesothelioma: Mechanism of Carcinogenesis
Malignant Mesothelioma: Genetic Susceptibility
Malignant Mesothelioma: Molecular Markers
Neoplasm of Soft Tissues
Malignant Neoplasms of the Skin
Breast Cancer
Malignant Tumors of the Female Reproductive System
Malignant Tumors of the Male Reproductive System
Kidney Cancer
Bladder Cancer
Malignant Tumors of the Central Nervous System
Lymphohematopoietic Malignancies
Occupational Cancer Burden
Occupational Carcinogens and Cancer in Children
Strategies for Primary Prevention of Occupational Cancer
Screening for Occupational Cancer
Role of Registers in Occupational Cancer Control
Appendix I Questionnaire on Exposure to Asbestos.