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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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Occupational cancer in Spain [PDF]
Environmental Health Perspectives, 1999 The knowledge of specific problems of occupational cancer in Spain is scarce. The environment of the workplace has improved over the last few years after a long period distinguished by bad working conditions, incomplete legislation, and insufficient safety measures and control.
C A, González, A, Agudo
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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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Occupation and cancer in Britain [PDF]
British Journal of Cancer, 2010 Prioritising control measures for occupationally related cancers should be evidence based. We estimated the current burden of cancer in Britain attributable to past occupational exposures for International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) group 1 (established) and 2A (probable) carcinogens.We calculated attributable fractions and numbers for cancer
Rushton, L +10 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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Occupational cancer in Germany [PDF]
Environmental Health Perspectives, 1999 As in probably mostly all other European countries, the incidence of occupational cancer in Germany increased steadily after World War II. In 1994 about 1,600 cases of occupational cancer were compensated--more than ever before. More than half of these cases were lung cancer, most caused either by asbestos (n=545) or by ionizing radiation ((italic)n ...
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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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