Iarc Monographs Programme on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans1 Preamble

ln 1969, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) initiated a programme to evaluate the carcinogenic risk of chemicals to humans and to produce monographs on individua1 chemica1s. The MOl1ographs programme has since been expanded to include consideration of exposures to comp1ex mixtures of chemica1s (which occur, for example, in sorne occupations and as a result of human habits) and of exposures to other agents, such as radiation and viruses. With Supplement 6 (lARC, 1987a), the tit1e of the series was modified from IARC MO/1ographs 0/1 the Evaluation of the Carcinogel1ic Risk al Chemicals to Huma/1s to IARC Monographs 011 the Evaluatiol1