Book chapter
Cancer Initiation by PCBs
PCBs: Recent Advances in Environmental Toxicology and Health Effects, pp.337-354
The University Press of Kentucky
02/05/2015
Abstract
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are ubiquitous in our environment and are routinely measured in animal and human tissue. PCBs have a multitude of effects in exposed organisms (reviewed in Dobson and van Esch, 1993 and this volume). One major concern is whether PCBs are also carcinogenic. Human epidemiological studies are inconclusive: several authors could not detect an increase in cancer in exposed populations, whereas others, especially those who published their findings during the last 10 years, do see significant increases of cancers at multiple organ sides (reviewed in Cogliano et al., 1998). The NIH ranks PCBs in their ninth report on
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cancer Initiation by PCBs
- Creators
- G. Ludewig
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- PCBs: Recent Advances in Environmental Toxicology and Health Effects, pp.337-354
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky; Lexington
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/05/2015
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984214719602771
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