[ensu] Fwd: Thu Feb 6 IES/GOEHU Environment & Health seminar
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- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:16:37 -0500 (EST)
--- Mona El-Haddad <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >
From: "Mona El-Haddad" <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Thu Feb 6 IES/GOEHU Environment & Health
> seminar
> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:19:40 -0500
>
> Institute for Environmental Studies
> and Gage Occupational & Environmental Health Unit
> ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH SEMINAR SERIES
> **************************************************
>
> THURS FEBRUARY 6, 4:00 p.m.
> Room 113, Koffler Inst. for Pharmacy Management, 569
> Spadina Ave.
> (**west door at Spadina Ave is locked; please use
> east door**)
>
> LORAINE MARRETT, Scientist, Division of Preventive
> Oncology, Cancer Care
> Ontario
> CHERYL ROSEN, Head of Dermatology, Toronto Western
> Hospital, University
> Health Network
>
> "ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION AND SKIN CANDER:
> MECHANISMS, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTION"
> (abstract and upcoming seminars below)
>
> For a map, updates, and abstracts,
> please see
> http://www.utoronto.ca/env/seminars/e&h-spring.html
>
> No registration required; all are welcome.
> **************************************************
> ABSTRACT:
>
> Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer and
> ultraviolet radiation
> (UVR), a known carcinogen, its main cause. After
> decades of increasing,
> the overall incidence of cutaneous malignant
> melanoma, the most serious
> form of skin cancer, appears to be stabilizing or
> declining in North
> America and Australia, particularly in more recently
> born cohorts This
> is suggestive of an effect of skin cancer prevention
> strategies,
> including use of sunscreen, that have become
> increasingly aggressive in
> these parts of the world. The relationship between
> skin cancer and UVR
> appears to be complex, perhaps in part because the
> exposure itself is so
> difficult to assess. Susceptibility also plays a
> role, with those who
> are fair, have many freckles and/or moles, and burn
> easily at increased
> risk. Recently, attention has been given to the role
> of genetic factors.
> Drs. Marrett and Rosen will provide an overview
> of the biological
> effects of UVR, the epidemiological evidence
> relating UVR to skin
> cancer, including current hypotheses around the
> nature of this
> relationship, and strategies that have been employed
> to reduce the
> occurrence of skin cancer.
>
>
> UPCOMING SEMINARS
>
> THU FEBRUARY 13 2003
> PAM KAUFMAN, Lecturer, Department of Public Health
> Sciences, University
> of Toronto, and
> Research Associate, Ontario Tobacco Research Unit,
> University of Toronto
>
> "Exploring physical and social factors that
> influence smoking behaviour
> in outdoor public places"
>
> THU FEBRUARY 27 2003
> GAIL EYSSEN, Professor, Department of Public Health
> Sciences, University
> of Toronto
> "Environmental sensitivity: an approach to research
> from environment to
> physiologic mechanisms"
>
> THU MARCH 6 2003
> MARK RAIZENNE, Acting Chief of the Air Health
> Effects Division, Safe
> Environments Programme at Health Canada
> Title to be determined.
>
> THU MARCH 27 2003
> PAT HARPER, Scientist, Research Institute, The
> Hospital for Sick
> Children, Toronto; Assistant Professor, Department
> of Pharmacology and
> Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University of
> Toronto
> Title to be determined.
>
>
> For more information, please contact:
> Mona El-Haddad, 416-978-6526, m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
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