OEM: Occupational cancer

[JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com]

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Regards, Jim Muckerheide
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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 12:34:14 +0200 (IST)
 From: Dr Yosi Riback <occup01@post.tau.ac.il>
Subject: OEM: Occupational cancer
Sender: owner-occ-env-med-l@list.mc.duke.edu

We have a patient who was treated for Hodgkin's disease and now one year 
after treatment with chemotherapy and radiotherapy and remains in 
complete remission. She is applying for a job as a radiology technision. 
We have a few questions. 
1. Can a patient with a cancer without evidence of an exposure to known 
or suspected carcinogens be employed in a job with exposure to known 
carcinogens?, suspected carcinogens?, probable carcinogens?
2. Can a patient with a cancer with evidence of a prior exposure to known 
or suspected carcinogens be employed in a job as in question 1? Also 
please consider if the exposure to to the same or different carcinogens.
3. Can a patient with a cancer be allowed to work with exposure to a 
substance which may cause immune suppression? (lead?, biological engineering 
workers?)
Thank you for your responses,

Judith Shaham MD
Head of the Occupational Cancer Unit
Occupational Health Institute
Raanana, Israel