Academic Journal
Is Cancer in Israeli Professional Divers Exposed to Polluted Waters an Occupational Disease?
| العنوان: | Is Cancer in Israeli Professional Divers Exposed to Polluted Waters an Occupational Disease? |
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| المؤلفون: | Paul Froom, Shlomo Almog, Asher Pardo |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://img2.timg.co.il/communafiles/30673992.pdf. |
| سنة النشر: | 2007 |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Key Words, risk analysis, divers, river waters, sediment |
| الوصف: | Because there is some contamination of practically every body of water, risk anal-ysis is important to determine diving exposure standards to pollutants, including requirements for protective equipment. In the following study we attempt to de-termine the increased risk of cancer in Israeli Naval divers exposed to pollutants in the Kishon River system. We calculated two risks, one using maximally recorded levels of pollutants outside the diving areas (worst-case scenario), and the other us-ing maximally recorded levels in the actual diving areas. For both calculations we used conservative assumptions for exposure (2500 exposure hours with 50 % of body covered with sediment), and a synergistic risk model. We considered all chemicals that were carcinogenic by inhalation also to be carcinogenic by oral and dermal absorption. The relative risk was 1.13 for the worst-case scenario, and 1.004 for ex-posures in actual diving areas. We conclude that it is unlikely that exposure to the polluted Kishon River waters can cause a detectable increase in cancer risk in Israeli Navy divers. This study has implications for professional divers exposed to polluted waters. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.533.4818; http://img2.timg.co.il/communafiles/30673992.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.533.4818 http://img2.timg.co.il/communafiles/30673992.pdf |
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| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.C669F12D |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |