What is it about?
Describe aspects that should also be consider like costs resulting from cancer and socio-economic analysis should consider them in their assessments.
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Why is it important?
These impacts/costs can be helpful to better support the investment and changes that should be implemented related with the exposure prevention to carcinogens, such as chemical substances.
Perspectives
The importance of consider also the costs described in the paper will allow to better justify the investment needed to be made to avoid exposure to carcinogens. This will allow to focusing on diseases where prevention has a limited or null impact.
Susana Viegas
GIAS - Environment and Health. Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa. Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
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This page is a summary of: Forgotten public health impacts of cancer – an overview, Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, December 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/aiht-2017-68-3005.
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