Bladder cancer documentation of causes: multilingual questionnaire, 'bladder cancer doc'.
There is a considerable discrepancy between the number of identified occupational-related bladder cancer cases and the estimated numbers particularly in emerging nations or less developed countries where suitable approaches are less or even not known. Thus, within a project of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centres in Occupational Health, a questionnaire of the Dortmund group, applied in different studies, was translated into more than 30 languages (Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese/Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Spanish, Spanish/Mexican, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese). The bipartite questionnaire asks for relevant medical information in the physician's part and for the occupational history since leaving school in the patient's part. Furthermore, this questionnaire is asking for intensity and frequency of certain occupational and non-occupational risk factors. The literature regarding occupations like painter, hairdresser or miner and exposures like carcinogenic aromatic amines, azo dyes, or combustion products is highlighted. The questionnaire is available on www.ifado.de/BladderCancerDoc.
Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Ardeystrasse 67, 44139 Dortmund, Germany. Golka@ifado.de
Klaus
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Golka
Yael
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Abreu-Villaca
Rowshanak
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Anbari Attar
Miriam
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Angeli-Greaves
Muhammad
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Aslam
Nursen
N
Basaran
Rouslana
R
Belik
Chaniphun
C
Butryee
Orietta
O
Dalpiaz
Keneshbek
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Dzhusupov
Thorsten H
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Ecke
Henrieta
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Galambos
Henrieta
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Galambos
Helena
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Gerilovica
Holger
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Gerullis
Patricia Casares
PC
Gonzalez
Maria E
ME
Goossens
Lela
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Gorgishvili-Hermes
Chris F
CF
Heyns
Jasmin
J
Hodzic
Fumihiko
F
Ikoma
Patrice
P
Jichlinski
Boo-Hyon
BH
Kang
Ernst
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Kiesswetter
Kannan
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Krishnamurthi
Marie-Louise
ML
Lehmann
Irina
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Martinova
Rama Devi
RD
Mittal
Beerappa
B
Ravichandran
Imre
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Romics
Bidyut
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Roy
Fransiska
F
Rungkat-Zakaria
Konrad
K
Rydzynski
Cristian
C
Scutaru
Jianhua
J
Shen
Maria
M
Soufi
Karlygash
K
Toguzbaeva
Trinh
T
Vu Duc
Agata
A
Widera
Mohamed
M
Wishahi
Jan G
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Hengstler
D004282:Documentation; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology