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IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. Some Nanomaterials and Some Fibres. Lyon (FR): International Agency for Research on Cancer; 2017. (IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, No. 111.)

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6Evaluation and rationale

6.1. Cancer in humans

There is sufficient evidence in humans for the carcinogenicity of fluoro-edenite fibrous amphibole. Fluoro-edenite fibrous amphibole causes mesothelioma.

6.2. Cancer in experimental animals

There is sufficient evidence in experimental animals for the carcinogenicity of fluoro-edenite fibrous amphibole.

6.3. Overall evaluation

Fluoro-edenite fibrous amphibole is carcinogenic to humans (Group 1).

© International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2017. For more information contact publications@iarc.fr.
Bookshelf ID: NBK436600

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