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Occupational cancer in developed countries

ABSTRACT: Studies of occupational exposures have made major contributions to our understanding of human carcinogenesis. About one third of the factors identified as definite or probable human carcinogens were first investigated in the workplace and these exposures exact a considerable toll on workin...

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Autores principales: Blair, Aaron, Marrett, Loraine, Beane Freeman, Laura
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3073201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21489219
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-10-S1-S9
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description ABSTRACT: Studies of occupational exposures have made major contributions to our understanding of human carcinogenesis. About one third of the factors identified as definite or probable human carcinogens were first investigated in the workplace and these exposures exact a considerable toll on working populations. There are many additional workplace exposures that are suspect carcinogens that require further evaluation to ensure a safe work environment. Information from occupational investigations is also relevant to the general population because many occupational exposures can be found outside the workplace. Much of our understanding about occupational cancer has been obtained from studies largely composed of white men in developed countries. The movement of industry from developed to developing countries underscores the need for future investigations to include more diverse populations.
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spelling pubmed-30732012011-04-12 Occupational cancer in developed countries Blair, Aaron Marrett, Loraine Beane Freeman, Laura Environ Health Proceedings ABSTRACT: Studies of occupational exposures have made major contributions to our understanding of human carcinogenesis. About one third of the factors identified as definite or probable human carcinogens were first investigated in the workplace and these exposures exact a considerable toll on working populations. There are many additional workplace exposures that are suspect carcinogens that require further evaluation to ensure a safe work environment. Information from occupational investigations is also relevant to the general population because many occupational exposures can be found outside the workplace. Much of our understanding about occupational cancer has been obtained from studies largely composed of white men in developed countries. The movement of industry from developed to developing countries underscores the need for future investigations to include more diverse populations. BioMed Central 2011-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3073201/ /pubmed/21489219 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-10-S1-S9 Text en Copyright ©2011 Blair et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Blair, Aaron
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Occupational cancer in developed countries
title Occupational cancer in developed countries
title_full Occupational cancer in developed countries
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title_short Occupational cancer in developed countries
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3073201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21489219
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-10-S1-S9
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