Environmental Carcinogens and Cancer Risk
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Causes, Screening and Diagnosis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 22834
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pesticides; ultraviolet radiation; air pollution; passive smoking; breast cancer; cognitive impairment; Parkinson’s disease
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Environmental carcinogens encompass a broad range of chemical, biological, and physical agents as well as some lifestyle factors. A unifying characteristic of these agents is the involuntary nature of their exposure from environmental and occupational settings. Both the National Toxicology Program (NTP) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services through their Report on Carcinogens and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) through their Monographs have extensively evaluated potential environmental carcinogens and together have identified several hundred. Simply considering the tens of thousands of chemicals in use across the world, substantial work remains to understand the potential cancer risk to humans and mechanisms of action.
Certain populations are at higher risk of being exposed to environmental carcinogens by virtue of occupations involving use of cancer-causing agents or residences in proximity to sources of environmental contaminants. Pregnant women, infants, and children comprise vulnerable populations to effects of environmental carcinogens, and disparities exist by socioeconomic status, as persons of low income may be less able to modify their environmental circumstances.
This Special Issue focuses on recent research addressing the association between environmental carcinogens and cancer risk as well as the biological mechanisms. Topics of interest to this issue are:
- Environmental carcinogen exposure sources and susceptible populations;
- Biomarkers of exposure, effect, and susceptibility;
- Epidemiologic researches or large dataset analyses;
- Mixture effects of multiple carcinogens;
- Risk assessment and analytical methods;
- Epigenetics and cancer risk assessment;
- Molecular mechanisms assessment;
- Exposure–response relationship;
- Gene–environment interactions;
- Cancer health disparities.
Submissions of original research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, short communications, and commentaries covering the aforementioned topics and other related topics will be welcome.
Prof. Dr. Nicole M. Gatto
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- route of exposure
- pollution
- radiation
- occupational hazards
- genotoxicity
- teratogen
- air
- soil
- water
- pesticides
- biomagnification
- synergism
- susceptibility
- contamination
- waste management
- geographical
- spatial
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