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PRINCIPLES OF TOXICOLOGY

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322 CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS<br />

Figure 13.13 Identifying and reducing chemical carcinogens requires an interdisciplinary approach, in which<br />

health professions interface with other scientific disciplines.<br />

genic mechanisms, and about species differences or similarities that can aid in assessing the<br />

human risk.<br />

• Epidemiologists add human evidence to risk evaluations or ascertain if a chemical should<br />

or should not be considered a human carcinogen for various reasons (it may have weak or<br />

undetectable activity).<br />

• Specialists in occupational medicine provide health surveillance programs to protect the<br />

health status of the worker and attempt to prevent those exposures that could lead to serious,<br />

chronic health problems.<br />

• Industrial hygienists help design better methods for evaluating and preventing worker<br />

exposures; and biometrists and computer scientists aid in risk analysis, data storage, and data<br />

analysis.<br />

As long as these disciplines are utilized jointly and their relationship to the occupational<br />

carcinogenesis problem is understood, occupational health and safety professionals can have good<br />

reason to hope for improved success in the prevention of occupational carcinogenesis.

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