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Document ID (ISN)47286
CIS number 86-1985
ISSN - Serial title 0096-1736 - Journal of Occupational Medicine
Year 1986
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Cartwright R.A.
Title Screening workers exposed to suspect bladder carcinogens
Bibliographic information Oct. 1986, Vol.28, No.10, p.1017-1019. 18 ref.
Abstract In England, screening programmes for detecting workers at increased risk for bladder cancer have helped identify the following issues: (1) early treatment should be considered part of the "screen"; (2) the early natural history of the disease is of some importance in conceptualising the problems and results of screening; (3) the epidemiology of high-risk groups might prove invaluable in extending screening to other groups. Of particular use might be aspects of genetic susceptibility. To address these points, an observational study has begun in Huddersfield to set up a trial of very early disease, contrasting therapy for early lesions with the long-term aim of altering the occurrence of invasive bladder lesions in the group of interest.
Descriptors (primary) United Kingdom; medical supervision; bladder tumour; early diagnosis
Descriptors (secondary) research; epidemiologic study
Document type D - Periodical articles
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Diseases of the kidney and the urinary system