OCRC is committed to a program of integrated research that provides a firm foundation for action and policy-making, ultimately leading to significant reductions in the overall burden of workplace-related cancer.
ProjectsThe Examination of Accepted Workplace Fatality Claims Within Ontario and Canada Significance: Occupational cancer occurs as a result of exposure to workplace carcinogens. These exposures may have occurred as many as thirty years prior to cancer onset. Further, workers that are no longer directly exposed to carcinogens still continue to be at risk. In 2006, Sharpe and Hardt... |
PublicationsPahwa, M., Harris, S.A., Hohenadel, K., McLaughlin, J.R., Spinelli, J.J., Pahwa, P., Dosman, J.A., Blair, A. Pesticide use, immunologic conditions, and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Canadian men in six provinces. International Journal of Cancer 2012; published online 2 April 2012. Pesticide exposures... |
Research SummariesWhat is non-Hodgkin lymphoma? Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is a term used to describe a group of blood cancers that start growing in white blood cells, which are part of the body’s immune system. NHL occurs in the lymph nodes, spleen, thymus and bone marrow. The causes are unclear, but NHL has been... |
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