Developments in asbestos cancer risk assessment

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• Personal Author:
  Lemen R ; Silverstein M ; Welch L
• Description:
  Asbestos, in its various forms, is perhaps the most thoroughly researched and best characterized occupational and environmental health hazard. Efforts have been made for 25 years to develop asbestos risk assessments that provide valid information about workplace and community cancer risks. Mathematical models have been applied to a group of workplace epidemiology studies to describe the relationships between exposure and risk. None of the efforts to use statistical models to characterize relative cancer potencies for asbestos fiber types and sizes have been able to overcome limitations of the exposure data, and should not be used to drive occupational and environmental health policy. New methods and more precise and reliable exposure assessments may enable such research in the future, but the uncertainties inherent in current models are too great to justify continuing industrial use of asbestos in any of its forms. The EPA, which tested a method of exposure testing based on these mathematical models, has now rejected and discontinued these efforts. Banning the production and use of the six regulated forms of asbestos and other asbestiform fi bers should be a more pressing public health priority than fi ber-specifi c asbestos risk assessments [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Asbestos Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Epidemiology Hazardous Substances Inorganic Chemicals Neoplasms Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Asbestos-products Cancer Environmental-hazards Exposure-levels Hazards Health-hazards Mathematical-models Models Risk-factors Work-environment Workers

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• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046805
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2014 Aug; :1
• Email:
  lwelch@cpwr.com
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Developments in asbestos cancer risk assessment
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202113/cdc_202113_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 42.47 KB ]