Environmental Causes of Cancer

Combating environmental causes of cancer.

791 each agent with the control. The ability to test multiple therapies in a smaller population will become more important as disease subcategories are increasingly defined by specific phenotypic, biologic, and genetic markers, and the available number of patients in a given category becomes a limiting factor in conducting relevant studies. The collaborative trial approach permits direct evalua...

Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer

Occupational and environmental causes of lung cancer.

Because tobacco smoking is a potent carcinogen, secondary causes of lung cancer are often diminished in perceived importance. The goal of this review is to describe the occurrence and recent findings of the 27 agents currently listed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as lung carcinogens. The IARC's updated assessments of lung carcinogens provide a long-overdue resource f...

Environmental and occupational causes of cancer re-visited.

We recently completed a review of scientific evidence, particularly epidemiologic evidence, regarding the contribution of environmental and occupational exposures to the overall cancer burden in the US. We evaluated the efforts to estimate the proportion of cancer due to these involuntary exposures, including the ambitious effort by Doll and Peto and an update by a group of authors at the Harva...

The Environmental Causes of Cancer Distribution in Syria

the last two decades witnessed a boost in cancer incidences in Syria, as well as high mortality ratios. The influence of the environmental factors was neglected beforehand. The study employed the geographical tools to investigate the environmental distribution of cancer disease and the environmental factor that controls this distribution. The study used the statistical, systematic, analytical d...