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...
Main Authors: | Claudio Müller-Ramírez, Sammy Almashat, Joanna Gaitens, Melissa McDiarmid |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pan American Health Organization
2023-03-01
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Series: | Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública |
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Online Access: | https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/57135 |
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