Sentence examples for monograph programme from inspiring English sources
There has been very broad involvement of the scientific community in the IARC Monograph Programme through participation in the Working Groups and service on the IARC Governing and Scientific Councils and ad hoc Advisory Board for the Monograph Programme.
The IARC Monograph Programme is mainly funded by the U.S. National Cancer Institute through a renewable grant subject to peer review of the program.
The goal of the Monograph Programme is to assess carcinogenic hazards from occupational, environmental, and lifestyle exposures and agents, thus providing an essential step in the societal decision-making process to identify and then control carcinogenic hazards.
The Monograph Programme convenes meetings of special Advisory Groups (composed of external scientists that possess a broad range of relevant professional skills) to review agents nominated for evaluation and to suggest IARC priorities for such reviews (Ward et al. 2010).
"For an individual, the risk of developing colorectal cancer because of their consumption of processed meat remains small, but this risk increases with the amount of meat consumed," said Dr Kurt Straif, head of the IARC monographs programme.
By setting rigorous criteria to summarize and evaluate the scientific evidence, the Monographs programme developed by Tomatis brought an evidence-based approach into Public Health.
To become closer to developments in 'evidence-based Public Health IARCC has recently added proper meta-analyses, not included in the original Monographs programme.
The IARC Monographs programme [ 1],started in 1972, anticipated by at least a decade one of the most influential changes in medicine, "evidence-based medicine".
Briefly, Rushton et al estimated attributable fractions and numbers for incidence and mortality for agents and occupations classified as Group 1 or 2A carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monographs programme with 'sufficient' or 'limited' evidence for specific cancers in humans.
We acknowledge that ELF MFs have been classified as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" (Group 2B) by the Monographs Programme of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC 2002) and that there is significant occupational exposure, thereby meeting our operational criterion for inclusion as a possible occupational carcinogen.
Epidemiological findings of an increased risk of bladder cancer in dry cleaners exposed to tetrachloroethylene led an expert working group assembled by the Monographs Programme at IARC to reaffirm the classification of tetrachloroethylene as "probably carcinogenic to humans" (Group 2A) in October 2012 and to newly identify the bladder as a target organ (Guha et al. 2012).
