Industrial-grade talc exposure and the risk of mesotheliomaBertram Price
Price Associates, Inc, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA
Crit Rev Toxicol 40:513-30. 2010
..This conclusion is applicable to all mineral components in RTV talc and to other industrial-grade talcs and mineral aggregates with the same components...
- Mesothelioma: risk apportionment among asbestos exposure sources
Bertram Price
Price Associates Inc, White Plains, NY 10061, USA
Risk Anal 25:937-43. 2005
..We provide justification for the use of the mesothelioma risk model for apportioning risk and discuss how to assess uncertainty associated with its application...
- Time trend of mesothelioma incidence in the United States and projection of future cases: an update based on SEER data for 1973 through 2005
Bertram Price
Price Associates, Inc, White Plains, New York 10601, USA
Crit Rev Toxicol 39:576-88. 2009
..We project that asbestos will no longer be a factor in mesothelioma cases after the year 2042. For 2008 through 2042, we estimate slightly more than 68,000 total cases, with asbestos the likely cause in 34%...
- Mesothelioma trends in the United States: an update based on Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program data for 1973 through 2003
Bertram Price
Price Associates, Inc, White Plains, NY 10601, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:107-12. 2004
..6 x 10(-4)) and the annual risk (3.9 x 10(-6)). The time pattern of cases for females supports the existence of a threshold exposure for mesothelioma and a quantifiable background rate...
- Exposure to airborne amphibole structures and health risks: Libby, Montana
Bertram Price
Price Associates, Inc, 1 North Broadway, Suite 406, White Plains, NY 10601, USA
Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 52:S97-S109. 2008
..Libby residents' exposures typically are substantially lower than mine workers' historical exposures, and the health risk projections for residents are, accordingly, substantially lower...
- A comparison of ARA and DNA data for microbial source tracking based on source-classification models developed using classification trees
Bertram Price
Price Associates, Inc, One N Broadway Ste 406, White Plains, NY 10601, USA
Water Res 41:3575-84. 2007
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- Classification tree method for bacterial source tracking with antibiotic resistance analysis data
Bertram Price
Price Associates, One North Broadway, White Plains, NY 10601, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:3468-75. 2006
..Anacostia Watershed ARA data are used to illustrate the application of classification trees, and we report the BST results for the watershed...
- Alternative estimate of source distribution in microbial source tracking using posterior probabilities
Joshua Greenberg
Price Associates, Inc, One North Broadway Ste 406, White Plains, NY 10601, USA
Water Res 44:2629-37. 2010
..The results show that averaging source posterior probabilities across isolates leads to more accurate source distribution estimates than proportions that follow classification...
- Risk assessment for asbestos-related cancer from the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center
Robert P Nolan
Center for Applied Studies of the Environment and Earth and Environmental Sciences of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, NY 10016, USA
J Occup Environ Med 47:817-25. 2005
..We sought to estimate the lifetime risk of asbestos-related cancer for residents of Lower Manhattan attributable to asbestos released into the air by the 9/11 attack on New York City's World Trade Center (WTC)...
- Radiographic abnormalities and asbestos exposure: Libby, Montana
Bertram Price
Environ Health Perspect 112:A82-3, author reply A83. 2004
