Qualitative assessment, of risk

IdentiHcation of human carcinogenic risks is an important step in the primary prevention of cancer. lARC, through its Monographs program, aims to provide independent, scientiHcally sound evaluations of degrees of evidence for carcinogenicity, thus furnishing qualitative assessments of risks to humans. 

However, by introducing the above subjective estimations of the two elements of risk into a simple risk matrix, a qualitative assessment of risk can be made. Figure 5.10 is an example of a simple risk matrix. 

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