Saturday, 19 January 2013

New, first-of-its-kind Canadian study to chronicle the impact of occupational cancers – The Pump Handle

New, first-of-its-kind Canadian study to chronicle the impact of occupational cancers – The Pump Handle: Dr. Paul Demers says he frequently finds himself having to make the case for why studying workplace exposures to carcinogens is important. Oftentimes, he says, people believe such occupational dangers are a thing of the past.

“A lot of people are still developing cancer and dying from cancer due to workplace exposures, but only a small fraction of those are compensated, so people may think the magnitude of this problem is small,” said Demers, director of the Occupational Cancer Research Centre in Ontario, Canada. “I wanted to have better data.”

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