| Abstrakt: |
In the last few years, mortality rates for kidney cancer have increased. Occupational kidney cancer is a recently-identified disease. The purpose of this work is to point out the environmental and occupational factors correlated with this pathology. IARC carcinogenic-substance lists and principal national and international epidemiologic studies are analyzed. Some professions prove to be correlated with kidney cancer: carbon coke production (clearly carcinogenic); cadmium and by-products (probably carcinogenic); lead and by-products (possibly carcinogenic). Most epidemiologic studies have shown a correlation between kidney cancer and exposure to petroleum and distillates, even if results are not significant. Therefore further epidemiologic studies of workers are necessary in order to define carcinogenic substances and the occupational risks. |
