title: Priority issues in occupational cancer research: Ontario stakeholder perspectives.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Workers are potentially exposed to known and suspected carcinogens in the workplace, many of which have not been fully evaluated. Despite persistent need, research on occupational cancer appears to have declined in recent decades. The formation of the Occupational Cancer Research Centre (OCRC) is an effort to counter this downward trend in Ontario. The OCRC conducted a survey of the broad stakeholder community to learn about priority issues on occupational cancer research.
  
  
  METHODS
  The OCRC received 177 responses to its survey from academic, health care, policy, industry, and labour-affiliated stakeholders. Responses were analyzed based on workplace exposures, at-risk occupations and cancers by organ system, stratified by respondents' occupational role.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Priority issues identified included workplace exposures such as chemicals, respirable dusts and fibres (e.g. asbestos), radiation (e.g. electromagnetic fields), pesticides, and shift work; and occupations such as miners, construction workers, and health care workers. Insufficient funding and a lack of exposure data were identified as the central barriers to conducting occupational cancer research.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of this survey underscore the great need for occupational cancer research in Ontario and beyond. They will be very useful as the OCRC develops its research agenda.
authors: Occupational Cancer Research Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. karin.hohenadel@cancercare.on.ca
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Hohenadel
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Pichora
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Marrett
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Bukvic
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Brown
authors: S A
authors: SA
authors: Harris
authors: P A
authors: PA
authors: Demers
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Blair
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics; D002273:Carcinogens; D003625:Data Collection; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced*; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D009790:Occupations; D009864:Ontario
chemical_list: D002273:Carcinogens