Epidemiology of environmental and occupational cancer

Round Table Advances in Occupational Cancer Occupational Cancer Epidemiology

Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer

Occupational and environmental causes of lung cancer.

Because tobacco smoking is a potent carcinogen, secondary causes of lung cancer are often diminished in perceived importance. The goal of this review is to describe the occurrence and recent findings of the 27 agents currently listed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as lung carcinogens. The IARC's updated assessments of lung carcinogens provide a long-overdue resource f...

Global Prevention of Environmental and Occupational Cancer

Cancer has become the second leading cause of death worldwide (Ferlay et al. 2008). Almost 13 million persons are diagnosed each year with cancer, and 7.6 million die (Ferlay et al. 2010). Today more than half of all cancers and 63% of cancer deaths occur in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), a burden that is expected to grow in future years as the " Western lifestyle " spreads and the nu...

Lung Cancer Related to Environmental and Occupational Hazards and Epidemiology in Chiang Mai, Thailand

The causes of lung cancer in northern Thailand have not been completely understood, but it is strongly believed that they are multi-factorial. The environmental and occupational factors have played a signiˆcant role on lung cancer. They can be categorized as physical, chemical, and biological. In the northern region of Thailand, speciˆcally Chiang Mai province, it has been recognized that the i...