Peto, Richard

Peto, Richard. 1985. Epidemiological Reservations about Risk Assessment. In Assessment of Risk from Low-level Exposures to Radiation and Chemicals. Edited by Avril D. Woodhead, Claire J. SheUabarger, and Alexander HoUaender. New York Plenum Press. 

In 1981, two eminent British cancer experts. Sir Richard Doll and Richard Peto published a paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute entitled The causes of cancer Quantitative estimates of avoidable risks of cancer in the United States today. The authors drew upon a vast body of literature of the type mentioned above, and attempted to allocate the deaths caused by cancers among various responsible factors. The authors concluded that a certain percentage of human cancer deaths could be avoided if exposure to the responsible factors could be eliminated or controlled in some way, although the appropriate degree and nature of control for some of the lifestyle factors, especially diet, is still highly uncertain. The Doll and Peto estimates are presented in Table 5.2. The factors are listed in a somewhat different order from how they were listed by the original authors, because of our interest in clearly separating lifestyle factors (the first... 

DoU, Richard, and Richard Peto. 1978. Cigarette Smoking and Bronchial Carcinoma Dose and Time Relationships Among Regular Smokers and Lifelong Non-smokers. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 22 303-13. 

Let me leave the final word to James Peto and Richard Doll, two of the most respected epidemiologists in the world. Both... 

Peto, R. Pike, M.C. Day, N.E. Gray, R.G. Lee, P.N. Parish, S. Peto, J. Richards, S. Wahrendorf, J. lARC Monograph on Long-Term and Short-Term Screening Assays for Carcinogens A Critical Appraisal, Suppl. 2 lARC Lyon Prance, 1980. 

Richards S, Gray R, Peto R, et al. Duration and intensity of maintenance chemotherapy in acute leukemia Overview of 42 trials involving 12,000 randomised children. Childhood ALL Collaborative Group. Lancet 1996 347 1783-1788. 

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