An approach to estimating the environmental burden of cancer from known and probable carcinogens: application to Ontario, Canada

• Main Authors: Susan Lavinia Greco (Author), Elaina MacIntyre (Author), Stephanie Young (Author), Hunter Warden (Author), Christopher Drudge (Author), JinHee Kim (Author), Elisa Candido (Author), Paul Demers (Author), Ray Copes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Quantifying the potential cancer cases associated with environmental carcinogen exposure can help inform efforts to improve population health. This study developed an approach to estimate the environmental burden of cancer and applied it to Ontario, Canada. The purpose was to ide...