Insight on Cancer: environmental exposures and cancer

Insight on Cancer is a series of joint Cancer Care Ontario and Canadian Cancer Society (Ontario Division) publications designed to provide up-to-date information about cancer and cancer risk factors in the province.

Insight on Cancer: environmental exposures and cancer (.pdf)

In this issue

evidence supports an association of one or more cancers with environmental exposure to:
- air pollution
- arsenic
- asbestos
- water disinfection by-products
- extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields
- solar radiation
- radon
commentators discuss prevention and policy issues related to environmental exposures

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Last modified on: 10 December 2009