• May 5, 2024

Did you know that there are jobs that trigger cancer? This neoplasm, which is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and the third in Mexico; it is generated by the interaction of genetic and external factors (physical, chemical and biological).

Therefore, the World Health Organization (WHO) ensures that at least 30% of cancer cases could be prevented by controlling the agents known as carcinogens, which are found in the general or working environment.

• Construction and fishermen: Direct exposure to the sun's rays favors the development of skin cancer, according to the American Cancer Association (ACS, for its acronym in English)

• Manufacture of furniture and cabinets or cast iron. Direct contact with materials such as arsenic, asbestos, nickel compounds can cause lung cancer, points out the Encyclopedia of health and safety at work .

• Workers in automobile factories. People who work with the agent called asbestos are likely to develop lung cancer, pleural mesothelioma and peritoneal cancer.

Beware of the pavement!

Because external factors are a big risk for developing cancer, one study details that tar sealers that are used in asphalt pavement contain carcinogens.

In the study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology , it is detailed that people who are in contact with the material have a higher risk of developing cancer due to exposure to Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (HAP).

This material can affect people when they become dust, inhale it at the moment it is applied or when drinking it. And you, how do you protect yourself from carcinogens?

Video Medicine: Beware of the pavement in Chiang Mai (May 2024).