Updating IARC's carcinogenicity assessment of benzene.

摘要

The task of updating more than 900IARC Monographs evaluations developed over nearly four decades is immense. At times, IARC devotes a meeting to an updating of prior evaluations. Supplement 7 updated the assessments of all agents that had been reviewed in Volumes 1-42 [IARC, 1987]. Volume 71 updated the assessments of more than 120 of the agents that had been classified in IARC Groups 2A, 2B, and 3 (probably carcinogenic to humans, possibly carcinogenic to humans, and not classifiable, respectively) [IARC, 1999]. And for the most recent update to be published as Volume 100, IARC convened six meetings to update the assessments of the 107 agents now classified in Group 1 (carcinogenic to humans). Dr. Infante writes as an Observer invited to the last of these six meetings, which was held in October 2009 and which focused on chemical agents and related occupations. All were reaffirmed as carcinogenic to humans.