Objective
Cancer incidence has increased significantly over the past 50 years; the lifetime risk has changed from 1 in 4 to 1 in 3. Between 1940 and 1980 the annual production rates of industrial synthetic chemicals has significantly risen. The impact of environmental chemicals in the changing epidemiology of human cancer is hotly debated. Estimates of the influence of environmental factors in the aetiology range from 2% to 90%. This proposed action is aiming at bringing together a number of the world's leading experts in cancer aetiology and epidemiology for a 3-day debate on the current state of knowledge and try to arrive at a consensus opinion on the level of influence of environmental chemicals in the causation of cancer. The seminar will be organized by ASPIS (see Annex I). The information will be disseminated by our ASPIS existing WEB site. The proceedings will be published in a multi-author book.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiology
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineoncology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
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ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measuresCoordinator
11527 ATHENS
Greece