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Advanced Cancer Risk Assessment Methods

Pilot Study

Pilot countries Italy United States Participating countries Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Czech Republic Germany Greece Lithuania Moldova Portugal Spain Turkey Ukraine Contact persons Dr. Giovanni A. Zapponi alfredo.zapponi@iss.it Dr. Vincent James Cogliano cogliano@iarc.fr

1. The objective of this study, co-directed by Italy and the United States, is to apply the biologically-based risk assessment procedures to analyse cases of main interest.

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• Rome, 23-25 February 1998 at the Instituto Superior di Sanita (ISS)
• Rome, 13-16 November 1999 at the ISS
• Santorini, Greece, 17-21 November 2000, when participants participants from Belarus and Lithuania presented topics related to the Chernobyl accident and introduced this topic at the same time.
• A one-day informal meeting during a NATO ARW on “Endocrine Disrupters and Carcinogenic Risk Assessment” that took place in Bialystok, Poland, 8-12 May 2001.
• As a result of the one-day informal meeting, the first Chernobyl accident-related activity thus commenced with a workshop on “Risk Asessment of Chernobyl Accident Consequences took place in Kyiv, 8-12 April 2002. This workshop was planned and organized as a satellite activity within the ongoing pilot study. After this workshop, the new independent pilot study on “Risk Assessment of Chernobyl Accident Consequences” was approved.
• Lyon, France, 18-20 November 2004 at the International Agency for Cancer Research.
• Heidelberg, Germany, 3-6 November 2006, at the German Cancer Research Center.

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