Carcinogenesis Advance Access originally published online on January 12, 2008
Carcinogenesis 2008 29(5):1083; doi:10.1093/carcin/bgm305
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‘Environment’ in cancer causation and etiological fraction: limitations and ambiguities
Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, CeRMS and CPO-Piemonte, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
2 Occupational Health Unit, Department of Prevention, Local Health Authority of Padua, Padua, Italy
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Boffetta et al. (1) discussed in depth ‘the main "errors" that produce over-estimates’ in the attributable fraction of environmental cancer, because they are ‘less widely appreciated’ than those producing the opposite effect. We would like to focus on the risk of mesothelioma following environmental exposures to asbestos, the first environmental carcinogen taken into account by the authors in their paper and in a previous article (2), because we think that, on the contrary, it has often been overlooked.
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