Cancer prevention: Strategies in the workplace
Book
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OSTI ID:5137902
This article discusses cancer prevention strategies for the workplace. Contents include: The exposure-potency index; ranking carcinogenic hazards of volatile industrial chemicals; ethylene dibromide toxicity and fatal consequences; danger of handling oncological agents, asbestos contamination of drinking water; sunlight and occupation skin cancer; smoking and occupational lung cancer; and controversies in the assessment of carcinogenic risk of formaldehyde.
- OSTI ID:
- 5137902
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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