Table of Contents

PAH-Induced Carcinogenesis -- An Introduction (A Luch) - Metabolic Activation and Detoxification of PAHs (A Luch & W M Baird) - Biomonitoring of PAHs -- Human Exposure (A Seidel) - Macromolecular Adducts as Biomarkers of Human Exposure (D H Phillips) - DNA Damage and Mutagenesis Induced by PAHs (A Besaratinia & G P Pfeifer) - Mechanisms of Repair of PAH-Induced DNA Damage (H Naegeli & N E Geacintov) - Aberrant Gene Expression and Cell Signalling/Epigenetic Effects Induced by PAHs (P Steinberg) - Assays for the Detection of Genotoxic Activity of PAHs (H Glatt) - Tumorigenicity of PAHs -- On the Possible Contribution of PAHs and Their Nitroderivatives to the Development of Human Breast Cancer (S Amin & K El-Bayoumy) - Genetic Susceptibility to PAH-Induced Carcinogenesis (A Hirvonen) - Summary and Prospects (A Luch)