Thousands contract cancer on the job every year, experts say - DutchNews.nl

Some 7,000 people a year are diagnosed with work-related cancers, research on behalf of cancer charity KWF Kankerbestrijding has shown. One in 10 people who have lung cancer contracted the disease because they work with harmful substances. Two-thirds of cases involved a type of skin cancer affecting people who worked outside. “It is mostly people in professions that involve being outside, such as builders, roofers and postal workers as well as [eople who come into contact with carcinogenic substances include...