Cancer Occurrence among Textile Industry Workers: Vital Statistics

Textile industry is one of the biggest industries of the world. Workers engaged in the textile industries around the world are exposed to different sets of chemicals including dyes, solvents, finishing chemicals and metals including Cu, Cr, Ni etc. Many of these chemicals including dyes have been identified as carcinogenic to humans. The exposure of the workers to such carcinogenic chemicals results in occurrence of different diseases including cancer. Different studies so far have been conducted to assess the cancer occurrence among textile industry workers around the world. In this paper an attempt has been made to compile those studies on the basis of different parameters.