Discovering Occupational Carcinogens in Population-Based Case-Control Studies: Review of Findings from an Exposure-Based Approach and a Methodologic Comparison of Alternative Data Collection Strategies

摘要: The identification of environmental carcinogens is one the main public health problems our era. Many, if not most known are occupational exposures (Doll and Peto 1981). There two reasons for this. It much easier to identify persons as having a common occupation or exposure than it them dietary, atmospheric, psychosocial, other type environment. Also, work environment has tended be more polluted domestic general However, thousands substances which workers exposed in workplace, only handful have ever been assessed epidemiologic studies carcinogenic potential. reasonable suspect that many yet discovered. Considering enormous number chemical physical agents what kind monitoring approach can applied problem flag potential carcinogens?