Occupational neoplastic diseases in the East-Slovakia Region
Authors:
S. Perečinský; V. Maruščáková; A. Jančová
Authors‘ workplace:
Klinika pracovného lekárstva a klinickej toxikológie, Lekárskej Fakulty Univerzity P. J. Šafárika a Univerzitnej Nemocnice L. Pasteura, Košice
prednosta doc. MUDr. Ľubomír Legáth, PhD.
Published in:
Pracov. Lék., 69, 2017, No. 1-2, s. 7-11.
Category:
Original Papers
Overview
Oncological diseases belong to most frequent causes of death among civilization diseases. Factors of working environment play a significant role in their origin. A rather wide range of 2 to 10 % has been reported, but certain studies indicate an even higher rate. At the present time in the Slovak Republic an occupational disease can be notified in a rather wide range of neoplastic diseases in many occupations. The present work analyzed neoplastic occupational diseases notified in the East-Slovakia Region with emphasis to trends in numbers of notified cases, types of malignant tumors and occupations at risk. The study included 93 patients, where neoplastic diseases have been notifies at our clinic during 1990–2016. Annually there have been 3.44 cases notified on the average, but the trend has been decreasing. Occupational neoplastic diseases formed 3.2% of all occupational diseases in the period of observation. Lung cancer cases formed an absolute majority of cases (92%). Other tumorous diseases (leukemia, mesothelioma, larynx cancer, gingival cancer and paranasal cavity cancer) occurred rarely. Results of the analysis demonstrate that in the East-Slovakia Region, a rather large region, is relatively well documented only lung cancer in the mining industry or in the metallurgical engineering despite exposure to carcinogens in many other occupations. The study draws attention to the nee of further analyses of other types of occupational malignant tumors and absolute inevitability for education of professional medical public.
KEYWORDS:
occupational neoplastic diseases – lung cancer – industrial sectors – mining industry
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