Nonetheless, the researchers said that the ranking should allow authorities to set priorities in testing and regulating environmental carcinogens.

He was also the author of legislation that bans smoking on certain airline flights, and he has promoted research into environmental carcinogens.

Once we know more about the various lesions in p53, we may be able to improve animal testing of putative environmental carcinogens.

This was the first occupational link to cancer, and Pott was the first person to demonstrate that a malignancy could be caused by an environmental carcinogen.

No one is challenging the suggestion that environmental carcinogens warrant further study.

Researchers from around the world are beginning to get a handle on this question by studying genetic differences among individuals and the way environmental carcinogens affect their cellular machinery.

We can get some fingerprints on environmental carcinogens and look for their targets inside cells.

Recent studies have shown that several environmental carcinogens cause mutations at characteristic sites on the p53 gene.

She argues persuasively that while we can do little to change our genetic inheritance, there is much that can be done to reduce human exposure to environmental carcinogens.

Other potential environmental carcinogens include occupational exposures such as nickel refining, exposure to textile fibers, and woodworking.