IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans.

Volume 95: Household Use of Solid Fuels and High-temperative Frying. 2010, pp. 430, ISBN: 978-92-832-1295-9. IARC, Lyon, France.

This volume considers household use of solid fuels for heating and cooking, a practice that can generate substantial quantities of indoor air pollution. Emissions from household use of solid fuels are complex mixtures containing thousands of chemical compounds at varying concentrations and these may be admixed and adsorbed to particulate matter of widely varying dimensions. Some of these compounds are known to cause cancer, however few epidemiological studies and cancer bioassays have investigated the potential cancer risk of solid fuels, mainly wood and other biomass.

This volume presents comprehensively the current knowledge on this important field of carcinogenesis.