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| Year : 2007 | Volume
: 11
| Issue : 1 | Page : 3-5 |
Occupational cancers in leather tanning industries: A short review
SK Rastogi1, C Kesavachandran2, Farzana Mahdi1, Amit Pandey1
1 Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, India
2 Epidemiology Section, Industrial Toxicology Research Centre (CSIR), Lucknow, India
Correspondence Address:
S K Rastogi
Department of Physiology, Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0019-5278.32456
Work in leather tanning involves exposure to a wide range of chemicals. Some of these are carcinogens or suspected carcinogens. Increased risks for a number of cancers have been reported among the tannery workers. In the present review, a detailed account of lung cancer, testicular cancer, soft tissue sarcoma, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer among tannery workers is mentioned.
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