Occupational Risk Factors

Chemical Exposure On List Of Job-Related Factors Causing Liver Cancer

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, December 3rd, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Long-term exposure to two carcinogens, xylene and toluene, is on a list of occupational risk factors associated with the formation of primary liver cancer in men living in northern Italy.

There is a high prevalence of hepatocellular carcinoma, or primary liver cancer, in some parts of Italy. Between 1997 and 1999, medical researchers in Italy performed a multicenter case-control study of occupational risk factors correlating with the onset of primary liver cancer among men living in the Province of Brescia, located in northern Italy. Although work-related liver cancer was rare, their results suggested that working in motor...

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