Occupational cancer kills more than 200 000 people a year

doi:10.1136/bmj.39202.548588.DB

BMJ 2007;334:925 (5 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.39202.548588.DB

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Occupational cancer kills more than 200 000 people a year

Kaushal Raj Pandey

BMJ

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More than 200 000 people, most of them in the developed world,die each year from a workplace related cancer, the World HealthOrganization has said in a press release.

A major rise in the incidence of occupational cancer can beexpected in developing countries in the coming decades as workprocesses involving the use of carcinogens shift to countrieswith less stringent enforcement of occupational health standards,WHO warns. These processes involve substances such as chrysotileasbestos and pesticides and those used in production of tyresand dyes.

The developed world presently has a higher rate of occupationalcancer, the result of the wide use 20 to 30 years ago of variouscarcinogenic substances such as blue asbestos, 2-naphthylamine,and benzene, it adds. These countries now have much tightercontrols on the presence of these known carcinogens in the workplace.

Asbestos, second hand smoke, and benzene are the carcinogens. . . [Full text of this article]

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