Asbestos Exposure and Ovarian Cancer - a Gynaecological Occupational Disease. Background, Mandatory Notification, Practical Approach.

D, Nowak; B, Schmalfeldt; A, Tannapfel; S, Mahner

doi:10.1055/a-1361-1715

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Asbestos Exposure and Ovarian Cancer - a Gynaecological Occupational Disease. Background, Mandatory Notification, Practical Approach.

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Authors:

Nowak D

Schmalfeldt B

Tannapfel A

Abstract

In 2017, ovarian cancer due to asbestos exposure was designated a new, and thereby the first, gynaecological occupational disease in Germany. Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral fibre with an annual usage in Germany of 160 000 - 180 000 metric tonnes in the 1960s and 1970s. The carcinogenicity...

Subject

Ovary

Ovarian cancer

Asbestos

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