Occupational Cancers

✍ Scribed by Sisko Anttila, Paolo Boffetta (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 612
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive guide to occupational factors of malignant diseases. It discusses potentially work-related malignancies, in the context of exposure assessment, specific clinical and pathological features of occupational cancer and biomarkers of exposure and disease. Epidemiological data about risk ratios of the cancer in question are reviewed for various occupations and with exposure to specific carcinogens, carcinogenic mechanisms, host susceptibility factors (genetic and other) and other environmental and life-style risk factors. Aspects such as surveillance of workers exposed to carcinogens and strategies for prevention of occupational cancer are also discussed.

Occupational Cancers is aimed at oncologists, pathologists, residents in training, clinical researchers, clinicians in occupational health, epidemiologists, pulmonologists, lawyers and public health officials.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Historical Overview of Occupational Cancer Research....Pages 1-20
Genetics and Gene-Environment Interactions....Pages 21-31
Mechanisms of Environmental and Occupational Carcinogenesis....Pages 33-48
Cancer of the Oral Cavity, Pharynx, and Nasopharynx....Pages 49-106
Pancreatic Cancer....Pages 107-126
Cancers of the Intestine, Liver, and Biliary Tract....Pages 127-137
Sinonasal Cancer....Pages 139-168
Laryngeal Cancer....Pages 169-179
Lung Cancer (Exposure Assessment, Pathology, and Epidemiology)....Pages 181-209
Lung Cancer: Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis....Pages 211-230
Lung Cancer: Genetic Susceptibility....Pages 231-241
Lung Cancer: Molecular Markers....Pages 243-251
Malignant Mesothelioma: Epidemiology....Pages 253-264
Malignant Mesothelioma: Clinical and Imaging Findings....Pages 265-272
Malignant Mesothelioma: Asbestos Exposure....Pages 273-284
Malignant Mesothelioma: Pathology....Pages 285-298
Malignant Mesothelioma: Mechanism of Carcinogenesis....Pages 299-319
Malignant Mesothelioma: Genetic Susceptibility....Pages 321-324
Malignant Mesothelioma: Molecular Markers....Pages 325-343
Neoplasm of Soft Tissues....Pages 345-377
Malignant Neoplasms of the Skin....Pages 379-390
Breast Cancer....Pages 391-408
Malignant Tumors of the Female Reproductive System....Pages 409-422
Malignant Tumors of the Male Reproductive System....Pages 423-437
Kidney Cancer....Pages 439-459
Bladder Cancer....Pages 461-480
Malignant Tumors of the Central Nervous System....Pages 481-495
Lymphohematopoietic Malignancies....Pages 497-529
Occupational Cancer Burden....Pages 531-550
Occupational Carcinogens and Cancer in Children....Pages 551-564
Strategies for Primary Prevention of Occupational Cancer....Pages 565-572
Screening for Occupational Cancer....Pages 573-582
Role of Registers in Occupational Cancer Control....Pages 583-590
Back Matter....Pages 591-609

✦ Subjects

Oncology; Pathology; Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine; Epidemiology; Public Health; Pneumology/Respiratory System