The real role of risk assessment in cancer risk management.
Regulatory actions taken to reduce the risk of harmful effects of exposure to chemicals often are not commensurate with the toxicological risk assessment. A number of factors relating to psychology, sociology, economics and politics rather than science and medicine affect the final decision. Werner Lutz and colleagues illustrate the situation using the leukemia-inducing chemical benzene as an example.
Lutz
W K
WK
Institute of Toxicology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Poetzsch
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J
Schlatter
J
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Schlatter
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D001554:Benzene / Q000633:toxicity; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000139:chemically induced; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*
D001554:Benzene