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) …

Occupational cancer: key challenges and opportunities for change over 300 000 newly
diagnosed cancers occur in the UK each year [1]. strategies to reduce these require a sound …

Occupational studies have identified many of the established chemical carcinogens. Studies
in the next millennium will be needed to identify the hazardous agents in occupations known …

For each kind of occupationally associated cancer, there are three distinct stages in the
development of the problem: recognition of a possible problem, confirmation, and the …

Occupational carcinogens have been shown to cause a considerable disease burden at a
national and global level [1–3]. The WHO Comparative Risk Assessment project was the first …

Occupational and environmental hazards and the potential adverse health effects arising
from them are an area of increasing public interest and a topic of a large body of research …

Recent estimates demonstrated that occupational cancer accounted for 27% of the 2.4
million deaths due to work-related diseases. 1–3 In numerical terms, this estimate means …

Occupational cancers (OC) are the result of exposure to carcinogenic agents at the
workplace. The most frequent types of OC are lung cancer, mesothelioma, bladder cancer …

This issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine includes three excellent papers on
the occupational causes of cancer. Loomis et al 1 use carcinogenicity evaluations …

Cancer registry data can be utilized in many ways in studies of occupational risk factors in
cancer. The different approaches available include comparison of incidence rates and trend …