Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FrontMatter
  • Reviewers
  • Contents
  • Summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Committee's Approach to Its Charge and Methods Used in Evaluation
  • 3 Background Information on Asbestos
  • 4 Exposure and Disposition
  • 5 Biological Aspects of Asbestos-Related Diseases
  • 6 Description of Epidemiologic Studies Included in Evidentiary Dataset
  • 7 Pharyngeal Cancer and Asbestos
  • 8 Laryngeal Cancer and Asbestos
  • 9 Esophageal Cancer and Asbestos
  • 10 Stomach Cancer and Asbestos
  • 11 Colorectal Cancer and Asbestos
  • 12 Summary and Recommendations
  • APPENDIXES
  • APPENDIX A Agendas of Public Meetings Held by the Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects
  • APPENDIX B Lineage and Design Properties of Studies on Cohorts Informative for Selected Cancers
  • APPENDIX C Description of Case-Control Studies of All Selected Cancers as Related to Exposure to Asbestos
  • APPENDIX D Cohort Results Tables
  • APPENDIX E Case-Control Results Tables
  • APPENDIX F Initial Analyses of Available Data Concerning Cancers of Colon and/or Rectum and Asbestos Exposure
  • APPENDIX G Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects.