Occupational Cancers among Employed Women: A Narrative Review
The facts that occupational cancer in women is under-investigated, with few in-depth analyses are well known. In recent decades the workforce has changed, with an increasing number of women employed. Therefore, the inclusion of women in occupational cancer studies has become more urgent and feasible...
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| description | The facts that occupational cancer in women is under-investigated, with few in-depth analyses are well known. In recent decades the workforce has changed, with an increasing number of women employed. Therefore, the inclusion of women in occupational cancer studies has become more urgent and feasible than in the past decades. The difficulties to evaluate occupational causes of female gynecologic tumors in most past cohorts and the potential variation in outcome responses between men and women must be taken into consideration. This narrative review discusses women’s occupational cancer as a current area of research, focusing on three groups of workers characterized by peculiar exposure to occupational carcinogens and where women are often employed: beauticians and hairdressers; farmers; and healthcare workers. We discuss the most relevant cancers in each working category, with a particular focus on female breast cancer. In the three industries reviewed in detail, there are some risk factors which may affect primarily women, inducing breast cancer and cervical cancer, as well as risk factors that are carcinogenic in both genders, but whose effects are less well known in women. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0460e16e86654a8a9c7fbe50bf5aa33c2023-11-16T19:39:33ZengMDPI AGCancers2072-66942023-02-01154133410.3390/cancers15041334Occupational Cancers among Employed Women: A Narrative ReviewFederica Teglia0Giulia Collatuzzo1Paolo Boffetta2Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, ItalyDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, ItalyDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, ItalyThe facts that occupational cancer in women is under-investigated, with few in-depth analyses are well known. In recent decades the workforce has changed, with an increasing number of women employed. Therefore, the inclusion of women in occupational cancer studies has become more urgent and feasible than in the past decades. The difficulties to evaluate occupational causes of female gynecologic tumors in most past cohorts and the potential variation in outcome responses between men and women must be taken into consideration. This narrative review discusses women’s occupational cancer as a current area of research, focusing on three groups of workers characterized by peculiar exposure to occupational carcinogens and where women are often employed: beauticians and hairdressers; farmers; and healthcare workers. We discuss the most relevant cancers in each working category, with a particular focus on female breast cancer. In the three industries reviewed in detail, there are some risk factors which may affect primarily women, inducing breast cancer and cervical cancer, as well as risk factors that are carcinogenic in both genders, but whose effects are less well known in women.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/15/4/1334femalewomenneoplasmsepidemiologyoccupational diseasesoccupational exposure |
| spellingShingle | Federica Teglia Giulia Collatuzzo Paolo Boffetta Occupational Cancers among Employed Women: A Narrative Review Cancers female women neoplasms epidemiology occupational diseases occupational exposure |
| title | Occupational Cancers among Employed Women: A Narrative Review |
| title_full | Occupational Cancers among Employed Women: A Narrative Review |
| title_fullStr | Occupational Cancers among Employed Women: A Narrative Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Occupational Cancers among Employed Women: A Narrative Review |
| title_short | Occupational Cancers among Employed Women: A Narrative Review |
| title_sort | occupational cancers among employed women a narrative review |
| topic | female women neoplasms epidemiology occupational diseases occupational exposure |
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