Association of 13 Occupational Carcinogens in Patients With Cancer, Individually and Collectively, 1990-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Occupational exposure to carcinogens has been shown to pose a serious disease burden at the global, regional, and national levels. Based on epidemiologic studies and clinical observations, working environment appears to have important effects on the occurrence of human malignant tumors; however, to date, no systematic articles have been published that specifically investigated cancer burden due to occupational exposure in an individual and collective manner.

Objective

To estimate the degree of exposure and evaluate the cancer burden attributable to occupational carcinogens (OCs) individually and collectively by sex, age, year, and location.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional study including data on 195 countries from the Global Burden of Dise

SUBMITTER: Li N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7893501 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature