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Mark Toraason,^1,* Richard Albertini,² Steven Bayard,³ William Bigbee,⁴ Aaron Blair,⁵ Paolo Boffetta,⁶ Stefano Bonassi,⁷ Steven Chanock,⁵ David Christiani,⁸ David Eastmond,⁹ Samuel Hanash,¹⁰ Carol Henry,¹¹ Fred Kadlubar,¹² Frank Mirer,¹³ Daniel Nebert,¹⁴ Stephen Rapport,¹⁵ Kathleen Rest,¹⁶ Nathaniel Rothman,⁵ Avima Ruder,¹ Russell Savage,^1,* Paul Schulte,^1,* Jack Siemiatycki,¹⁷ Peter Shields,¹⁸ Martyn Smith,¹⁹ Paige Tolbert,²⁰ Roel Vermeulen,⁵ Paolo Vineis,²¹ Sholom Wacholder,⁵ Elizabeth Ward,^22,* Michael Waters,²³ and Ainsley Weston²⁴

¹National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; ²University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA; ³Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Washington, DC, USA; ⁴University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ⁵National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ⁶International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; ⁷National Institute for Research on Cancer, Genoa, Italy; ⁸Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ⁹University of California, Riverside, California, USA; ¹⁰University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; ¹¹American Chemistry Council, Arlington, Virginia, USA; ¹²National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, Arkansas, USA; ¹³Health and Safety Department, International Union, United Auto Workers, Detroit, Michigan, USA; ¹⁴University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; ¹⁵University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, ¹⁶National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, DC, USA; ¹⁷University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada; ¹⁸Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA; ¹⁹University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; ²⁰Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ²¹University of Torino, Torino, Italy; ²² American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ²³National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA; ²⁴National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

Abstract
As high-throughput technologies in genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics evolve, questions arise about their use in the assessment of occupational cancers. To address these questions, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the American Chemistry Council sponsored a workshop 8-9 May 2002 in Washington, DC. The workshop brought together 80 international specialists whose objective was to identify the means for best exploiting new technologies to enhance methods for laboratory investigation, epidemiologic evaluation, risk assessment, and prevention of occupational cancer. The workshop focused on identifying and interpreting markers for early biologic effect and inherited modifiers of risk. Key words: biomarkers, chemical exposure, epidemiology, gene-environment interactions, genomics, occupational cancer, polymorphisms, proteomics, risk assessment, toxicogenomics. Environ Health Perspect 112:413-416 (2004) . doi:doi:10.1289/txg.6343 available via http://dx.doi.org/ [Online 14 January 2004]

Address corresponding to M. Toraason, NIOSH C23, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH, 45226 USA. Telephone: (513) 533-8207. Fax: (513) 533-8138. E-mail: mtoraason@cdc.gov

*These authors were responsible for developing the summary based on speaker presentations at the workshop.

The workshop was cosponsored by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the American Chemistry Council.

The authors declare they have no competing financial interests.

Received 18 March 2003 ; accepted 14 January 2004.

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