Occupational cancer

Industrial processes associated with cancer include aluminum production; iron and steel founding; and underground mining with exposure to uranium or radon.

[3][4][5] Other risk factors for cancer include:[6][7][8] Common cancers and their exposures and occupations include:[2] 4-aminobiphenyl, arsenic printing and textile industries; paint/ dyeing products; chimney sweeping; machinists; hairdressers and barbers; truck drivers wood dust plastics, and textile industries plastics, and textile industries oxide, pesticides shoemaking, funeral embalming arsenic, cadmium, chromium compounds, diesel exhaust, sulfur mustard roofing, painting, chimney sweeping, iron and steel foundry work, welding oxide, herbicides, insecticides hairdresser or barber plumbing, painting and construction industries; factory workers dust, leather dust, wood dust, radium milling, nickel refining, furniture and cabinet builders, shoemaking sunlight involve a lot of sun exposure Firefighters have shown higher rates of certain types of cancer (respiratory, digestive, and urinary systems), and of all cancers combined, when compared to the general U.S.

[10] Due to the lack of central and comprehensive sources of data, research on cancer rates amongst firefighters has been challenging.

[11][12][13][14] On July 7, 2018, Congress passed the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2018 requiring the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create the National Firefighter Registry designed to collect data on cancer rates among U.S.

[19] Other factors related to construction work can also put the workers at an elevated risk of cancer such as sun exposure.

[24] It is estimated that there are approximately 120,000 work-related cancer cases annually in the EU due to exposure to carcinogens at work.