Author: UNAIDS
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: areca, nut, evaluation, carcinogenic, risks, monographs, humans, nitrosamines, quid, chewing, derived, betel, iarc
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2004-12
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 9283212851
ISBN-13: 9789283212850

This monograph evaluates the evidence of carcinogenicity of Betel-quid and Areca-nut chewing as well as some areca-nut-derived nitrosamines.

Author: International Agency for Research on Cancer
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: monographs, iarc, tobacco, risks, humans, carcinogenic, evaluation, smokeless, specific, nitrosamines
Number of Pages: 635
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 9283212894
ISBN-13: 9789283212898

This eighty-ninth volume of the IARC Monographs is the third and last of a series on tobacco-related agents. Volume 83 reported on the carcinogenicity of tobacco smoke and involuntary smoking (second-hand smoke or environmental tobacco smoke) (IARC, 2004a). Volume 85 summarized the evidence on the carcinogenic risk of chewing betel quid with and without tobacco (IARC, 2004b). That volume explored the variety of products chewed in South Asia and other parts of the word that contain areca nut in combination with other ingredients, often including tobacco. In this eighty-ninth volume, the carcino