Article
Laryngeal cancer as a result of occupational exposition to noxious substances of blue collar worker employed in the rubber industry
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Authors
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Frank Metternich
- HNO-Klinik, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg - Eppendorf
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Tilman Brusis
- HNO-Klinik, Krankenhaus Holweide, Kliniken der Stadt Köln
| Published: | September 22, 2005 |
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Background: The acceptance of laryngeal cancer as an occupational disease in the rubber industry is a topic of scientific interest because of the increasing number of head- and neck malignomas of blue collar workers in this branch of industry.
Method: The present paper reviews the most relevant epidemiological studies on this topic, the relevant experimental animal studies and 6 otorhinolaryngological reports of blue collar worker employed in the rubber industry suffering from laryngeal cancer.
Results: In the predominate percentage of the studies a significant statistical correlation between a specific exposition to harmful substances in the rubber industry and a development of laryngeal cancer could not be proved, although the materials used in the rubber industry are in a high percentage cancerogenic and clinical as well as experimental causal connections are obvious. In contrast to this for the first time in the German-speaking area a causal connection between the specific exposition to harmful substances in one factory of the rubber industry and the development of laryngeal cancer over a period of 8 years was accepted in 5 out of 6 cases.
Conclusion: Up to the final clarification of a causal connection between an occupation in the rubber industry and the development of laryngeal cancer, an acceptance and a compensation of the disease according to §9 Abs. 2 SGB VII (former §551 Abs. 2 RVO) will be habit in the justified individual case.
