[Occupational lung cancers].
Bronchopulmonary cancers are the most prevalent of all occupational cancers. Many work-involved cancerous agents have been identified, the first in line being asbestos. These cancers have no clinical, radiological or histological specificity. Only a standardised, systematic enquiry in all the patients suffering from lung cancers will reveal an eventual occupational exposure. Twelve tables of occupational diseases in the general regime of the national health scheme permit the declaration of an occupational disease and the compensation of patients and entitled persons. Patients exhibiting lung cancers related to the inhalation of asbestos, recognized as an occupational disease, benefit from particular dispositions.
Ameille
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Unité de Pathologie professionnelle et de Santé au travail, Hôpital Raymond-Poincaré, 104, boulevard Raymond-Poincaré, AP-HP, 92380 Garches. jacques.ameille@rpc.ap-hop-paris.fr
D001194:Asbestos / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology*
D001194:Asbestos