CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 46, Issue 2 67-69, Copyright © 1996 by American Cancer Society
The prevention of occupational cancer
P. J. Landrigan
Occupational exposures to carcinogens are widespread and can result in
tragic consequences for exposed workers. Clinicians are in a unique
position to identify associations between workplace exposures and human
malignancy, and virtually all occupational carcinogens have first been
recognized by astute clinicians. Further, occupational cancers are usually
preventable, and clinicians can be very effective in triggering preventive
activities by industry, unions, and public authorities.