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What is next for occupational cancer epidemiology? [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2022 Research on occupational causes of cancer has identified 47 known (Group 1) agents associated with 23 types of cancer through 2017, an increase from 28 agents in 2004 (1, 2).
Michelle C Turner
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Rendre les cancers évitables. Recherches sur le travail cancérogène et ses conséquences
Anthropologie & Santé, 2021 France now counts nearly 400,000 new cancer cases per year. Yet, even though this epidemic is shaped by strong inequalities, the role of work as a cause of cancer remains underacknowledged, if not ignored.
Moritz Hunsmann +2 more
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Revista Brasileira de Cancerologia, 2023 Introduction: Despite the economic importance of the Region, there are still few studies in the literature about occupational cancer in Brazil’s Southeast Region.
Nuria Sales-Fonseca +3 more
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Occupational Cancer Protection by Most Recommended International Administrative Control
Asian Pacific Journal of Environment and Cancer, 2020 Background and purpose: Microwave and radio waves are a class of non-ionizing beams that have a variety of applications in different environments, and uncontrolled exposure to these beams can lead to cancer.
Vida Zaroushani +2 more
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023 Antineoplastic drugs (ANDs) used for chemotherapy can cause secondary cancers in treated patients and can pose carcinogenic risks to health-sector workers anywhere along these drugs’ life cycle in a facility, from production to patient administration ...
Claudio Müller-Ramírez +3 more
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Nervous system cancer mortality in an industrialized area of Brazil 1980 - 1993 [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2000 OBJECTIVES: The industrialization process and nervous system cancer (NSC) mortality in a urban region of Brazil. METHOD: From registries of the State System of Data Analysis Foundation (SEADE), 103 males deaths by NSC (ICD-9) in Baixada Santista (BS ...
MARCILIA DE A. MEDRADO-FARIA +3 more
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Squamous cell carcinoma of the scrotum in a Nigerian: case report
Rare Tumors, 2009 Squamous cell carcinoma of the scrotum is rare and to the best of our knowledge has never been reported from Nigeria. We report on a case thought to be occupation-related in a 42-year-old Nigerian taxi driver who had previously been an automobile ...
Jerome Azike +2 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2020 In an editorial in an earlier issue of this journal, Johanson & Tinnerberg (1) expressed serious and well-founded concern over the large number of future occupational cancer cases that will result if exposures for a number of substances are not reduced ...
Maria Albin, Per Gustavsson
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Strategic Task and Break Timing to Reduce Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure in Outdoor Workers
Frontiers in Public Health, 2020 Objectives: Public health messaging about sun avoidance strategies is often not practical for outdoor workers. The objective of this study was to use personal monitoring data to determine when peak UVR exposure occurs for outdoor workers, estimate how ...
Cheryl E. Peters +6 more
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Binding occupational exposure limits for carcinogens in the EU – good or bad?
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2019 The European Union (EU) has increased its efforts to counteract cancer due to occupational exposure. This is done by several means, including more active use and revision of the Carcinogen Directive (1), launch of the Roadmap on Carcinogens (2) and the ...
Gunnar Johanson, Håkan Tinnerberg
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