Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: cancer and the environment - revisiting traditional views of involuntary exposure to carcinogens / P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati and M.A. Pitsos -- Incorporating the environmental context in the study of cancer - issues and implications / A. Novogradec and S. Harris Ali -- Could the increase in cancer incidence be related to recent environmental changes? / C.V. Howard and J.A. Newby -- The role of DNA damage and DNA-damaging environmental chemicals in carcinogens / K. Peltonen -- Gene-environment interaction in environmental carcinogens / H. Autrip -- Health impact assessment of accidents with environmental carcinogens - a case study of the Belgian PCB/Dioxin incident in 1999 / L. Hens -- Anti-oxidants and chemopreventive agents as cancer enhancing agent: the other side of the coin / S.Z. Abdel-Rahman, M. Peolini, and M.S. Legator -- Legislative proposals for reversing the cancer epidemic and controlling run-away industrial technologies / Samuel S. Epstein -- Re-evaluation of priorities in addressing the cancer issue: conclusions, strategies, prospects / P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati, C.V. Howard, and B.A.J. Gaudet.