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A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

scientific article published in December 2012

A database of exposures in the rubber manufacturing industry: design and quality control

scientific article

A retrospective cohort study of cancer mortality in employees of a Russian chrysotile asbestos mine and mills: study rationale and key features

scientific article published on 20 April 2013

A review of human carcinogens - Part F: chemical agents and related occupations

journal article published in 2009

A review of human carcinogens--Part B: biological agents

scientific article (publication date: April 2009)

A review of human carcinogens--Part C: metals, arsenic, dusts, and fibres

scientific article (publication date: May 2009)

A review of human carcinogens--Part E: tobacco, areca nut, alcohol, coal smoke, and salted fish

scientific article published in November 2009

A review of human carcinogens--part D: radiation

scientific article published in August 2009

A stand-alone windows applications for computing exact person-years, standardized mortality ratios and confidence intervals in epidemiological studies

scientific article published on September 2000

AGRICOH: a consortium of agricultural cohorts ⬇️

scientific article

Abstract 1875: Lung cancer risk among hairdressers in SYNERGY – pooled analysis from case-control studies in Europe and Canada with detailed smoking data

article

Abstract 1877: Lung cancer risk in painters: Results from the SYNERGY pooled analysis

Advice on formaldehyde and glycol ethers

scientific article published in September 2004

Advisory Group recommendations on priorities for the IARC Monographs

journal article published in 2019

Alcohol and Lung Cancer Risk Among Never Smokers: A Pooled Analysis from the International Lung Cancer Consortium and the SYNERGY Study

scientific article (publication date: 27 February 2017)

Alcohol consumption and liver cancer risk: a meta-analysis

article

Alcohol drinking and colorectal cancer risk: an overall and dose-response meta-analysis of published studies

scientific article

Alcohol drinking and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma with focus on light-drinkers and never-smokers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 07 April 2011

Alcohol drinking and laryngeal cancer: overall and dose-risk relation--a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

An occupational cohort mortality study of women in the German rubber industry: 1976 to 1991.

scientific article

Association of marijuana smoking with oropharyngeal and oral tongue cancers: pooled analysis from the INHANCE consortium

scientific article published on 18 December 2013

Authors' response

Betel quid chewing and the risk of oral and oropharyngeal cancers: A meta-analysis with implications for cancer control

article by Neela Guha et al published 15 September 2014 in International Journal of Cancer

Betel quid without tobacco as a risk factor for oral precancers.

scientific article

Bladder cancer risk in painters: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on August 2010

Breast-cancer screening--viewpoint of the IARC Working Group

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Cancer and non-cancer mortality in a cohort of recent entrants (1981-2000) to the German rubber industry

scientific article published on August 2007

Cancer incidence among workers occupationally exposed to dinitrotoluene in the copper mining industry

Cancer mortality among workers in the German rubber industry: 1981-91.

scientific article

Cancer mortality in German carbon black workers 1976-98.

scientific article

Cancer prevention as part of precision medicine: 'plenty to be done'

scientific article

Cancer risk among tetrafluoroethylene synthesis and polymerization workers

scientific article published on 4 July 2013

Cancer risk: role of chance overstated

scientific article published on 5 February 2015

Cannabis smoking and risk of lung cancer in men: a pooled analysis of three studies in Maghreb

scientific article

Carbon black: Kuempel et al. respond ⬇️

publication published in 2011

Carcinogenicity of 1,3-butadiene, ethylene oxide, vinyl chloride, vinyl fluoride, and vinyl bromide

article

Carcinogenicity of alcoholic beverages

scientific article

Carcinogenicity of benzene

journal article published in 2017

Carcinogenicity of carbon black, titanium dioxide, and talc

article

Carcinogenicity of chemicals in industrial and consumer products, food contaminants and flavourings, and water chlorination byproducts

scientific article

Carcinogenicity of combined oestrogen-progestagen contraceptives and menopausal treatment

article

Carcinogenicity of consumption of red and processed meat

scientific article published on 23 October 2015

Carcinogenicity of drinking coffee, mate, and very hot beverages

scientific article

Carcinogenicity of fluoro-edenite, silicon carbide fibres and whiskers, and carbon nanotubes

journal article published in 2014

Carcinogenicity of household solid fuel combustion and of high-temperature frying

scientific article

Carcinogenicity of human papillomaviruses

article

Carcinogenicity of lindane, DDT, and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid

scientific article published on 22 June 2015

Carcinogenicity of malaria and of some polyomaviruses

scientific article published on 16 March 2012

Carcinogenicity of nitrate, nitrite, and cyanobacterial peptide toxins

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Carcinogenicity of pentachlorophenol and some related compounds

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

Carcinogenicity of perfluorooctanoic acid, tetrafluoroethylene, dichloromethane, 1,2-dichloropropane, and 1,3-propane sultone.

scientific article

Carcinogenicity of polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated biphenyls

journal article published in 2013

Carcinogenicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

scientific article published in December 2005

Carcinogenicity of quinoline, styrene, and styrene-7,8-oxide.

publication published in 2018

Carcinogenicity of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields.

scientific article

Carcinogenicity of shift-work, painting, and fire-fighting

scientific article published on 03 December 2007

Carcinogenicity of some aromatic amines, organic dyes, and related exposures

journal article published in 2008

Carcinogenicity of tetrachlorvinphos, parathion, malathion, diazinon, and glyphosate

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

Carcinogenicity of trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, some other chlorinated solvents, and their metabolites

journal article published in 2012

Carcinogenicity of welding, molybdenum trioxide, and indium tin oxide.

scientific article

Cholangiocarcinoma among workers in the printing industry: using the NOCCA database to elucidate the generalisability of a cluster report from Japan: Table 1

scholarly article by Jelle Vlaanderen et al published December 2013 in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Cigarette smoking and colorectal cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study

scientific article published on 26 October 2010

Cigarette smoking and lung cancer--relative risk estimates for the major histological types from a pooled analysis of case-control studies

scientific article published on 14 December 2011

Classification schemes for carcinogenicity based on hazard identification serve science and society

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Climate action has valuable health benefits

Commentary: mobile phones and cancer: next steps after the 2011 IARC review

scientific article published on January 2014

Comparison of exposure assessment methods for occupational carcinogens in a multi-centre lung cancer case-control study

scientific article

Considerations of circadian impact for defining 'shift work' in cancer studies: IARC Working Group Report

scientific article published on 20 October 2010

Development of an exposure measurement database on five lung carcinogens (ExpoSYN) for quantitative retrospective occupational exposure assessment

scientific article published on 11 October 2011

Dinitrotoluene exposure in the copper mining industry and renal cancer: a case-cohort study

article published in 2014

Does household use of biomass fuel cause lung cancer? A systematic review and evaluation of the evidence for the GBD 2010 study

scientific article

Effect modification of the association of cumulative exposure and cancer risk by intensity of exposure and time since exposure cessation: a flexible method applied to cigarette smoking and lung cancer in the SYNERGY Study

scientific article

Effectiveness of tax and price policies in tobacco control

scientific article

Elevated mortality from nonalcohol-related chronic liver disease among female rubber workers: is it associated with exposure to nitrosamines?

scientific article published on March 1999

Environmental carcinogen exposure and lifestyle factors affecting cancer risk in Qatar: findings from a qualitative review

scientific article published on March 2016

Epidemiologic review of marijuana use and cancer risk

scientific article

Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015

scientific article published on 10 April 2017

Estimating the asbestos-related lung cancer burden from mesothelioma mortality ⬇️

scientific article published on January 10, 2012

Estimating the asbestos-related lung cancer burden from mesothelioma mortality.

scientific article published on 9 December 2014

Estimating the burden of occupational cancer as a strategic step to prevention ⬇️

scientific article published on June 19, 2012

European Code against Cancer 4th Edition: Environment, occupation and cancer.

scientific article published on 9 July 2015

European Code against Cancer 4th Edition: Medical exposures, including hormone therapy, and cancer

scientific article published on 26 September 2015

Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Among Never Smokers in Golestan Province, Iran, an Area of High Incidence of Esophageal Cancer - a Cross-Sectional Study with Repeated Measurement of Urinary 1-OHPG in Two Seasons

scientific article

Exposure to diesel motor exhaust and lung cancer risk in a pooled analysis from case-control studies in Europe and Canada

scientific article

Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in childhood and incidence of cancer in adulthood in never smokers in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

scientific article published on 30 January 2011

Exposure to high concentrations of nitrosamines and cancer mortality among a cohort of rubber workers.

scientific article

Exposure to inhalable dust and its cyclohexane soluble fraction since the 1970s in the rubber manufacturing industry in the European Union

scientific article published on 10 October 2007

Exposure to nitrosamines and mortality from salivary gland cancer among rubber workers

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Exposure to nitrosamines, carbon black, asbestos, and talc and mortality from stomach, lung, and laryngeal cancer in a cohort of rubber workers

scientific article published on August 2000

Exposure-Response Analyses of Asbestos and Lung Cancer Subtypes in a Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies

scientific article

Extended Cancer Mortality Follow-Up of a German Rubber Industry Cohort

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Field comparison of inhalable aerosol samplers applied in the european rubber manufacturing industry

scientific article published on 28 February 2006

From testing to estimation: the problem of false positives in the context of carcinogen evaluation in the IARC monographs

scientific article published on 19 June 2012

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

scientific article

IARC carcinogen update

scientific article

Internal exposure to carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and DNA damage: a null result in brief ⬇️

scientific article published on June 16, 2012

Is previous respiratory disease a risk factor for lung cancer?

scientific article

Job titles and work areas as surrogate indicators of occupational exposure

scientific article

Key Characteristics of Carcinogens as a Basis for Organizing Data on Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis

scientific article

Listing occupational carcinogens.

scientific article

Low frequency of cigarette smoking and the risk of head and neck cancer in the INHANCE consortium pooled analysis

scientific article published on 30 July 2015

Lung cancer among coal miners, ore miners and quarrymen: smoking-adjusted risk estimates from the synergy pooled analysis of case-control studies

scientific article

Lung cancer and socioeconomic status in a pooled analysis of case-control studies

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

Lung cancer risk among bakers, pastry cooks and confectionary makers: the SYNERGY study

scientific article published on 2 August 2013

Lung cancer risk among bricklayers in a pooled analysis of case-control studies

scientific article

Lung cancer risk among cooks when accounting for tobacco smoking: a pooled analysis of case-control studies from Europe, Canada, New Zealand, and China

scientific article published on February 2015

Lung cancer risk among hairdressers: a pooled analysis of case-control studies conducted between 1985 and 2010.

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

Lung cancer risk and workplace exposure to environmental tobacco smoke

journal article published in 2007

Lung cancer risk in painters: a meta-analysis

scientific article

Lung cancer risk in painters: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on August 2011

Lung cancer risk in painters: results from the SYNERGY pooled case-control study consortium

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Meeting report: summary of IARC monographs on formaldehyde, 2-butoxyethanol, and 1-tert-butoxy-2-propanol

scientific article

Meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies on cigarette smoking and liver cancer

scientific article published on 31 August 2009

Modelling of occupational respirable crystalline silica exposure for quantitative exposure assessment in community-based case-control studies

scientific article published on 14 October 2011

Modification of breast cancer risk in young women by a polymorphic sequence in the egfr gene

scientific article published in January 2004

New biomarkers of occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

scientific article published in January 2008

Night work and breast cancer - results from the German GENICA study

scientific article

No association between educational level and pancreatic cancer incidence in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

Occupational Exposure to Asbestos and Ovarian Cancer: A Meta-analysis ⬇️

scientific article published on June 3, 2011

Occupational exposure to NDMA and NMor in the European rubber industry

scientific article published on 8 January 2007

Occupational exposure to asbestos and risk of cholangiocarcinoma: a population-based case-control study in four Nordic countries

scientific article

Occupational exposure to organic dust increases lung cancer risk in the general population

scientific article

Occupational exposure to trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene and the risk of lymphoma, liver, and kidney cancer in four Nordic countries

scientific article published on 27 February 2013

Occupational prestige, social mobility and the association with lung cancer in men

scientific article

Occupational risk factors for mortality from stomach and lung cancer among rubber workers: an analysis using internal controls and refined exposure assessment

article

Peritoneal mesothelioma in Italy: Trends and geography of mortality and incidence

scientific article published on 9 September 2015

Prediagnostic circulating parathyroid hormone concentration and colorectal cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort

scientific article

Qat use and esophageal cancer in Ethiopia: A pilot case-control study

scientific article

Rauchen als möglicher Confounder in epidemiologischen Studien: Standardisierung der Erhebung, Quantifizierung und Analyse

Re: "Occupational risk factors for gastric cancer: an overview" ⬇️

scientific article published on March 15, 1998

Re: False-positive results in cancer epidemiology: a plea for epistemological modesty

scientific article published on 9 December 2009

Recent evidence on alcohol and cancer epidemiology

scientific article published on September 2013

Reply to "the critical role of pre-publication peer review-a case study of glyphosate" by FN Dost

scientific article

Reply: comment on 'estimating the asbestos-related lung cancer burden from mesothelioma mortality'.

scientific article published on 27 June 2013

Research recommendations for selected IARC-classified agents

journal article published in 2010

Response to "Lung Cancer Risk Among Non-Smoking Firefighters".

scientific article

Reversal of risk upon quitting smoking

scientific article published in July 2006

Risk of lung cancer and past use of cannabis in Tunisia.

scientific article published on July 2006

SYN-JEM: A Quantitative Job-Exposure Matrix for Five Lung Carcinogens

scientific article published on 9 June 2016

Second primary malignancies among women with uterine sarcoma

scientific article published on 6 April 2012

Sensitivity analyses of exposure estimates from a quantitative job-exposure matrix (SYN-JEM) for use in community-based studies

scientific article

Smokeless tobacco and cancer

scientific article

Smokeless tobacco and tobacco-related nitrosamines

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Some chemicals that cause tumours of the urinary tract in rodents.

scientific article published on 27 June 2017

Tetrachloroethylene exposure and bladder cancer risk: a meta-analysis of dry-cleaning-worker studies

journal article published in 2014

The IARC Perspective on Colorectal Cancer Screening

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

The carcinogenicity of outdoor air pollution.

scientific article

The role of alcohol dehydrogenase genes in head and neck cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis of ADH1B and ADH1C.

scientific article published on 31 October 2011

The science and practice of carcinogen identification and evaluation

scientific article

Tobacco and cancer: recent epidemiological evidence

journal article published in 2004

Towards incorporating epigenetic mechanisms into carcinogen identification and evaluation

scientific article published on 07 June 2013

Transparency in IARC Monographs

Updating IARC's carcinogenicity assessment of benzene ⬇️

scientific article published on December 13, 2010

Use of Meta-analyses by IARC Working Groups ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Use of mechanistic data in IARC evaluations

scientific article

Use of mechanistic data in the IARC evaluations of the carcinogenicity of polychlorinated biphenyls and related compounds

scientific article

Use of smokeless tobacco and risk of myocardial infarction and stroke: systematic review with meta-analysis

scientific article

Welding and lung cancer in a pooled analysis of case-control studies

scientific article

Workplace risk factors for cancer in the German rubber industry: Part 1. Mortality from respiratory cancers ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1998

Workplace risk factors for cancer in the German rubber industry: Part 2. Mortality from non-respiratory cancers ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1998

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