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Epidemiological Perspectives on Low-Dose Exposure to Human Carcinogens

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Low Dose Exposures in the Environment

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Abstract

The major strength of epidemiological studies is that human beings are under study, risk is thus not extrapolated from animal data or derived from molecular studies. It should be underlined that epidemiological studies are concerned with events which occur in populations. The primary unit is thus groups of people and not an individual. This is how epidemiology differs from clinical medicine. The clinician is interested in what is wrong with a patient and how to cure the patient, while the epidemiologists ask: “What caused the disease and how could we prevent it?”. Thinking in epidemiological terms often seems strange to clinicians who are used to think of the problem of each single patient.

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Streffer, C. et al. (2004). Epidemiological Perspectives on Low-Dose Exposure to Human Carcinogens. In: Wütscher, F. (eds) Low Dose Exposures in the Environment. Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08422-9_5

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