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computes the surface area of a sphere from its volume, using the assumptions that the density of almost<br />

all species is close to 1, and therefore body mass can be used as a close approximation of volume<br />

(reviewed by Travis and White, 1988). The formula is: SA = kBW 2/3 , where SA is surface area, k is a<br />

constant, and BW is body mass in kilograms. Freireich et al. (1966) tested this theory using cancer<br />

chemotherapeutic drug toxicity data from several species, including humans, and concluded that body<br />

weight to the 2/3 power was appropriate for scaling drug toxicity. Travis and White (1988) reanalyzed<br />

the Freireich et al. data set using a multiple linear regression technique and concluded that the use of<br />

BW 3/4 is more appropriate for interspecies dose comparisons. As noted in the descriptions of cancer<br />

risk assessment methodologies above, US EPA and <strong>OEHHA</strong> have used body weight to the 2/3 power<br />

to calculate the cancer potency factors listed in this document. Currently, US EPA is considering<br />

revisions to its cancer risk assessment guidelines, including changing the body weight scaling factor from<br />

2/3 to 3/4 power. Using 3/4 power would result in lowering cancer potency factors approximately 2-<br />

fold when extrapolating from rats. However, US EPA has stated that cancer potency values listed in<br />

IRIS will not be revisited solely for the purpose of incorporating changes in cancer potency value<br />

calculation methods contained in the draft revised cancer risk assessment guidelines.<br />

Chemical-specific Descriptions of Cancer Potency Value Derivations<br />

In<strong>format</strong>ion summaries for chemicals whose cancer potency values were obtained from Toxic Air<br />

Contaminant documents (TAC) standard or expedited Proposition 65 documents, Integrated Risk<br />

In<strong>format</strong>ion System (IRIS) documents, Health Effects Assessment Summary Table (HEAST) entries,<br />

Air Toxicology and Epidemiology (ATES) documents and Pesticides and Environmental Toxicology<br />

(PETS) documents follow this section.<br />

How the Technical Support Document for Describing Available Cancer Potency Values (<strong>TSD</strong>)<br />

Addresses the RAAC Committee Recommendations<br />

The Technical Support Document for Describing Available Cancer Potency Values (<strong>TSD</strong>), which was<br />

drafted concurrently with the release of the Risk Assessment Advisory Committee (RAAC) draft final<br />

report, follows the RAAC report recommendations quite closely. The table below lists the applicable<br />

RAAC report recommendations and the ways in which the <strong>TSD</strong> adheres to those recommendations.<br />

Appendix E of the <strong>TSD</strong> provides US EPA IRIS unit risk and cancer potency values for all chemicals<br />

listed in the <strong>TSD</strong>. Appendix F presents the ratios of the California-developed unit risk values used in<br />

the Unit Risk and Cancer Potency Factors Table of the <strong>TSD</strong> with the corresponding unit risk values<br />

(where available) listed in IRIS.<br />

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