Archive for the ‘Occupational Lung Disease’ Category

  This article presents information on the types of carcinogens that one may be exposed to through their occupation. The ‘National Agency for Research on Cancer’ (IARC) has classified more than sixty disease causing carcinogens and there are at least 10,000 cases of cancer in males each year.        The cancer which is [...]

Exposure to dusts, gases, vapours and fumes at work can lead to the development of the following types of lung disease. Acute bronchitis and even pulmonary oedema from irritants such as sulphur dioxide, chlorine, ammonia, or the oxides of nitrogen. Pulmonary fibrosis due to mineral dust. Occupational asthma, this is now the commonest industrial lung [...]