Cancer Risk Assessment and the Biostatistical Revolution of the 1970s—A Reflection
Before around 1960, assessment of risk from exposure to toxic substances, including risk of cancer, was generally implemented using the NOAEL-safety factor approach that essentially assumed that an exposure threshold existed and exposures below the threshold carried no risk. In the 1970s there came...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Dose-Response |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1559325818806402 |