Risk Estimate
A description of the probability that organisms exposed to a specific dose of a chemical or other pollutant will develop an adverse response, e.g., cancer.
Risk Factor ...
incremental unit risk estimate
For an air pollutant, this is the additional lifetime cancer risk occurring in a hypothetical population in which all individuals are exposed continuously from birth throughout their lifetimes to a concentration ...
multistage model Mathematical model based on the multistage theory of the carcinogenic process which yields risk estimates either equal to or less than the one-hit model.
 See also: Risk, Cancer, Site, Air, Toxic
  
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