The occupational environment has been a most fruitful one for investigating the etiology of
human cancer. Many recognized human carcinogens are occupational carcinogens. There …

Abstract The Montreal Occupational Cancer Study was the first study to address the problem
of discovering occupational carcinogens by collecting detailed job exposure information in a …

Tens of thousands of chemicals are in common use (1). Those for which we have substantial
evidence concerning human carcinogenicity number in the tens; those for which we have …

The recognition of occupational carcinogens is important for primary prevention,
compensation and surveillance of exposed workers, as well as identifying causes of cancer …

NEED FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS That there should still be uncertainty
about the number of occupational carcinogens in 1984, 66 years after Yamagiwa and …

Studies of the adverse effects of occupational exposures are most informative when jobs can
be classified according to the specific chemical or physical agents involved. However …

What do we currently know about the occupational and environmental causes of cancer? As
of 2007, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (1ARC) identified 415 known or …

This work, presented as a personal view of the published literature on the subject, has 5
sections. The first describes the methods used in the investigation of the epidemiology of …

Environmental determinants of human cancer are reviewed, with particular emphasis on
chemical carcinogens. Topics covered include: the prevalence of human cancer …

Since the inception of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in the early
1970s, the IARC Monographs Programme has evaluated more than 1000 agents with …