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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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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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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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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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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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A population-based case-control study on social factors and risk of testicular germ cell tumours [PDF]
, 2013 Objectives Incidence rates for testicular cancer have risen over the last few decades. Findings of an association between the risk of testicular cancer and social factors are controversial. The association of testicular cancer and different indicators of
Ahrens, W. +8 more
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The two-stage clonal expansion model in occupational cancer epidemiology: Results from three cohort studies [PDF]
, 2010 Copyright © 2010 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. All rights reserved.Objectives: The objective of this work was to apply the two-stage clonal expansion model, with the intention to expand the literature on epidemiological applications of the model and ...
Gore, R, Kriebel, D, Zeka, A
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Low radon exposures and lung cancer risk: joint analysis of the Czech, French, and Beaverlodge cohorts of uranium miners. [PDF]
, 2019 It is well established that high radon exposures increase the risk of lung cancer mortality. The effects of low occupational exposures and the factors that confound and modify this risk are not clear and are needed to inform current radiation protection ...
Lane, Rachel SD +5 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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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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