PAH Exposure and Cancer

Workers are environmentally exposed to PAHs in a number of industrial settings. Some of these are listed here. For each industry group, exposure to PAHs also involves concurrent exposures to other chemicals. These are listed here for some of the occupational exposures along with the cancers associated with eachJ55  

Though all of these occupational groups are exposed to PAHs, each is exposed to distinctly different other chemicals as well. With the exception of lung cancer, the different cancers associated with each group point out the mixture effect. In all the groups, exposures are to lipophilic PAHs and to different combinations of other lipophiles and hydrophiles. 

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