Assessing Human Exposure to Key Chemical Carcinogens

Vladan Radosavljeviс graduated from the Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1991. He specialized (May 1995) and received his doctorate (November 1999) in epidemiology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade.  Dr. Radosavljeviс was the head of the Department of Epidemiology and deputy director of the Military Institute for Preventive Medicine in Belgrade from 2003 to 2010. He was the head of military preventive medicine from 2010 to 2020 in the Ministry of Defense of Serbia, and in 2020 he moved to the Institute of Epidemiology of the Military  Medical  Academy, Belgrade, where he works as an expert epidemiologist. As a scientist, he was also a professor at the Biological Weapons course at the Military Academy of the University of Defense in Belgrade and a research associate at the Epidemiology course. Since 2015, Dr. Radosavljeviс is a United Nations expert on biological weapons within the mechanism of the United Nations Secretary General. This volume is his third book with Springer.

• Introduction.- Arsenic.- Cadmium.- Nickel.- Beryllium.- Chromium hexavalent.- Aflatoxins.- 4- Aminobiphenyl.- Aristolochic acids.- Benzene.- Benzidine.- Benzo[a]pyrene.-Bis(chloromethyl) ether (BHME) and Chloromethyl methyl ether (HMME).- 1,3-Butadiene.- Vinyl chloride.- 1,2-dichloropropane.- Ethylene oxide.- Lindane (gamma hexachlorocyclohexane – γ-HHCH).- 4,4'-methylenebis(2-chloroaniline).- 2-naphthylamine (2-NA).- Orthotoluidine.- Pentachlorophenol.- Polychlorinated biphenyls (PHBs).- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (shale oil).- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (soot).- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (coke production).- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (occupational exposure during coal tar distillation).- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (emissions from burning coal indoors).- 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin.- 2,3,4,7,8-Pentachlorodibenzofuran.- Trichlorethylene.