Carcinogenic drug exposure among health-sector workers: the need for exposure assessment and surveillance

Carcinogenic drug exposure among health-sector workers: the need for exposure assessment and surveillance

Antineoplastic drugs (ANDs) used for chemotherapy can cause secondary cancers in treated patients and can pose carcinogenic risks to health-sector workers anywhere along these drugs’ life cycle in a facility, from production to patient administration. Several PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers (CCs) hav...

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Main Authors: Claudio Müller-Ramírez, Sammy Almashat, Joanna Gaitens, Melissa McDiarmid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pan American Health Organization 2023-03-01
Series:Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Subjects:
occupational cancer
risk assessments
health personnel
antineoplastic agents
Online Access:https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/57135

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