• Front Matter R1-R12

• Summary 1-12

• 1 Introduction 13-17

• 2 Committee's Approach to Its Charge and Methods Used in Evaluation 18-48

• 3 Background Information on Asbestos 49-62

• 4 Exposure and Disposition 63-80

• 5 Biological Aspects of Asbestos Related Diseases 81-103

• 6 Description of Epidemiologic Studies Included in Evidentiary Dataset 104-158

• 7 Pharyngeal Cancer and Asbestos 159-172

• 8 Laryngeal Cancer and Asbestos 173-192

• 9 Esophageal Cancer and Asbestos 193-202

• 10 Stomach Cancer and Asbestos 203-215

• 11 Colorectal Cancer and Asbestos 216-229

• 12 Summary and Recommendations 230-232

• APPENDIX A Agendas of Public Meetings Held by the Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects 233-236

• APPENDIX B Lineage and Design Properties of Studies on Cohorts Informative for Selected Cancers 237-254

• APPENDIX C Description of Case-Control Studies of All Selected Cancers as Related to Exposure to Asbestos 255-270

• APPENDIX D Cohort Results Tables 271-296

• APPENDIX E Case-Control Results Tables 297-308

• APPENDIX F Initial Analyses of Available Data Concerning Cancers of Colon and/or Rectum and Asbestos Exposure 309-322

• APPENDIX G Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects 323-328

" APPENDIX C Description of Case-Control Studies of All Selected Cancers as Related to Exposure to Asbestos ." Asbestos: Selected Cancers . Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2006 .

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