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Healthy lifestyle interventions in general practice Part 5: Lifestyle and cancer

open access: yesSouth African Family Practice, 2009
No abstract available.
E.W. Derman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the carcinogenic potential of low-dose exposures to chemical mixtures in the environment: the challenge ahead. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Lifestyle factors are responsible for a considerable portion of cancer incidence worldwide, but credible estimates from the World Health Organization and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) suggest that the fraction of cancers ...
Ab Hamid, Hasiah   +173 more
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Food-Borne Chemical Carcinogens and the Evidence for Human Cancer Risk

open access: yesFoods, 2022
Commonly consumed foods and beverages can contain chemicals with reported carcinogenic activity in rodent models. Moreover, exposures to some of these substances have been associated with increased cancer risks in humans.
Tetyana Kobets   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Carcinogenic Mycotoxins*

open access: yes, 2010
Mycotoxins are metabolites of molds considered to be a major risk factor affecting human and animal health. It is estimated that 25% of the world’s crop production is contaminated with mycotoxins. Mold contamination occurs extensively in fields and is particularly severe in tropical countries.
Peraica, Maja, Domijan, Ana-Marija
openaire   +2 more sources

Supervised mutational signatures for obesity and other tissue-specific etiological factors in cancer

open access: yeseLife, 2021
Determining the etiologic basis of the mutations that are responsible for cancer is one of the fundamental challenges in modern cancer research. Different mutational processes induce different types of DNA mutations, providing ‘mutational signatures ...
Bahman Afsari   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Présence des aflatoxines et de l’ochratoxine A dans les denrées alimentaires : évaluation du risque encouru par des consommateurs de poisson fermenté (adjuevan) commercialisé à Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)

open access: yesBiotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2022
Risk associated with the presence of mycotoxins (aflatoxins and ochratoxin A) in foodstuffs: the case of fermented fish (adjuevan) marketed in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) Description of the subject.
Kouakou Gains Kpan Kpan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mutations in pathways depending on BRCA1 and BRCA2 may increase cancer risks from an environmental carcinogen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Recently, the President’s Cancer Panel [2008-2009] protested that preventive action is not taken when uncertainty exists about potential harm from a chemical, because the US regulatory approach demands that a hazard be incontrovertibly ...
Bernard Friedenson
core   +2 more sources

Scientific Ignorance and Reliable Patterns of Evidence in Toxic Tort Causation: Is There a Need for Liability Reform? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
As a first step to preserving the central aims of tort law, courts will need to recognize the wide variety of respectable, reliable patterns of evidence on which scientists themselves rely for drawing inferences about the toxicity of substances.
Cranor, Carl F., Eastmond, David A.
core   +2 more sources

Health effects of exposure to radon: implications of the radon bed mattress incident in Korea [PDF]

open access: yesEpidemiology and Health, 2019
Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive material formed by the slow decay of uranium and thorium found in the earth’s crust or construction materials. Internal exposure to radon accounts for about half of the natural background radiation dose to which
Songwon Seo   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Failure of Agency-Forcing: The Regulation of Airborne Carcinogens Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
Professor Graham analyzes section 112 of the Clean Air Act, a provision intended by Congress to achieve ambitious regulatory ends by constraining agency discretion.
Graham, John D.
core   +2 more sources

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