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PRINCIPLES OF TOXICOLOGY - Biology East Borneo

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322 CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESISFigure 13.13 Identifying and reducing chemical carcinogens requires an interdisciplinary approach, in whichhealth professions interface with other scientific disciplines.genic mechanisms, and about species differences or similarities that can aid in assessing thehuman risk.• Epidemiologists add human evidence to risk evaluations or ascertain if a chemical shouldor should not be considered a human carcinogen for various reasons (it may have weak orundetectable activity).• Specialists in occupational medicine provide health surveillance programs to protect thehealth status of the worker and attempt to prevent those exposures that could lead to serious,chronic health problems.• Industrial hygienists help design better methods for evaluating and preventing workerexposures; and biometrists and computer scientists aid in risk analysis, data storage, and dataanalysis.As long as these disciplines are utilized jointly and their relationship to the occupationalcarcinogenesis problem is understood, occupational health and safety professionals can have goodreason to hope for improved success in the prevention of occupational carcinogenesis.

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