Assessing the carcinogenic potential of low-dose exposures to chemical mixtures in the environment: the challenge ahead

Authors

William H. Goodson
Leroy Lowe, Getting to Know Cancer
David O. Carpenter, University at Albany
Michael Gilbertson, Getting to Know Cancer
Abdul Manaf Ali, Sultan Zainal Abidin University
Adela Lopez de Cerain Salsamendi, University of Navarra
Ahmed Lasfar, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
Amancio Carnero, Univ. de Sevilla.
Amaya Azqueta, University of Navarra
Amedeo Amedei, University of Firenze
Amelia K. Charles, University of Reading
Andrew R. Collins, University of Oslo
Andrew Ward, University of Bath
Anna C. Salzberg, Pennsylvania State University
Annamaria Colacci, Environmental Protection and Health Prevention Agency
Ann-Karin Olsen, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Arthur Berg, Pennsylvania State University
Barry J. Barclay, Planet Biotechnologies Inc.
Binhua P. Zhou, University of Kentucky
Carmen Blanco-Aparicio, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre
Debasish Roy, CUNY Hostos Community College

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

June 2015

Abstract

Summary Low-dose exposures to common environmental chemicals that are deemed safe individually may be combining to instigate carcinogenesis, thereby contributing to the incidence of cancer. This risk may be overlooked by current regulatory practices and needs to be vigorously investigated.

Comments

This work was originally published in Carcinogenesis, available at doi:10.1093/carcin/bgv039