SEMINAR: The Impact of Improving the Methods of Estimating the Burden Occupational Cancer
Paul Demers, PhD Director, Occupational Cancer Research Centre - Toronto The Impact of Improving the Methods of Estimating the Burden Occupational Cancer Monday, 13 February 2017 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm 鈥� McIntyre Medical Building 3655 promenade Sir William Osler 鈥� Room 208/209 鈥� 2 nd Floor
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SYNOPSIS: Various approaches have been used to assess the burden of cancer due to preventable risk factors. Assessing the impact of workplace factors can be particularly challenging. In this seminar I will talk about the some of these challenges and how we have chosen to address them in our Canadian burden of occupational cancer project. In particular, I will focus on the choice of appropriate relative risk estimates, the methods to assess historic exposure, the shape of dose-response relationships, and the impact of these choices on the magnitude of burden estimates, using diesel engine exhaust and crystalline silica as examples. I will discuss the implications of using different EA approaches for other national and global burden efforts.聽
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