Breast cancer and carcinogens in the workplace: NNEWH research
Printer-friendly versionCBC reported recently on a research project being carried out by Jim Brophy and Margaret Keith through a project of the National Network on Environments and Women's Health (NNEWH).
Brophy and Keith are trying to find out how breast cancer may be caused by exposure to carcinogens in the workplace, part of their ongoing effort to raise concern about on-the-job exposures to toxic substances. They are trying to learn more about why more breast cancers are occurring now in industrialized countries.
This article is the second in a three-part series, Exposed: On the Job, about cancer-causing agents in the workplace
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