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Apr 28, 2024 · IARC acknowledges in a summary of its results that “chance, bias or confounding could not be ruled out as an explanation for the positive findings.” But the agency considered the evidence ...
Apr 26, 2024 · IARC Director Dr Elisabete Weiderpass will deliver the keynote address, on the global cancer burden due to occupational exposures. Dr Mary Schubauer-Berigan, Head of the IARC Monographs programme, will give a presentation titled “IARC Monographs Update: Opportunities and challenges in occupational epidemiology and exposure characterization”.
4 days ago · Formaldehyde ( / fɔːrˈmældɪhaɪd / ⓘ for-MAL-di-hide, US also / fər -/ ⓘ fər-) ( systematic name methanal) is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH2O and structure H−CHO, more precisely H2C=O. The compound is a pungent, colourless gas that polymerises spontaneously into paraformaldehyde.
3 days ago · The name mineral oil has been used to describe many colorless, odorless liquids. Most often, the term refers to a liquid by-product of the distillation of petroleum to produce gasoline and other petroleum-based products from crude oil. These oils, including lubricant base oils and products derived from them, are used in manufacturing, mining ...
Apr 24, 2024 · IARC researchers have shown that a single dose of vaccine against HPV is enough to confer long-term protection against HPV, equivalent to the protection offered by two or even three doses. This means that countries can effectively protect twice or three times as many people with the same number of vaccines, making vaccination programmes a very ...
Apr 30, 2024 · The IARC classifies red meat as a Group 2A carcinogen, which is described as ‘probably carcinogenic to humans’. “This was based on limited evidence that eating red meat causes cancer in ...
Apr 26, 2024 · The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is pleased to announce that the Monographs on Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) and Polybrominated Biphenyls (PBBs) are now available online. In its evaluation, the Working Group classified both PCBs and dioxin-like PCBs as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1), while PBBs were classified as ...
