Trends in quantitative cancer risk assessment.
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Trends in quantitative cancer risk assessment.
Quantitative cancer risk assessment is a dynamic field, more closely coupled to rapidly advancing biomedical research than ever before. Six areas of change and growth are identified: expansion from models of cancer initiation to a more complete picture of the total carcinogenic process; trend from curve-fitting to biologically based models; movement from upperbound estimates to best estimates, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.90-1519481