| Document ID (ISN) | 77905 |
| CIS number |
02-205 |
| Year |
2001 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Title |
Lung cancer - Pleural cancer (mesothelioma) - Detection, reporting and compensation |
| Original title |
Cancers du poumon - Cancers de la plèvre (mésothéliomes) - Comment les repérer, les déclarer, les faire reconnaître, les faire indemniser [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
Ligue nationale contre le cancer, 14 rue Corvisart, 75013 Paris, France, 2001. 21p. |
| Abstract |
Contents of this booklet describing the compensation system for occupational lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma in France: introduction and general considerations on occupational cancers; reporting procedures; occupational activities having possibly given rise to exposures to agents known to cause lung cancer (asbestos, arsenic, bis-chloromethyl ether, sulfuric acid fog and smoke, chromium compounds, tars, soot, nickel compounds, iron oxide, radioactive dust or smoke, silica, cobalt dust in association with tungsten carbide) as well as the corresponding compensation systems. It duplicates the section of the general booklet on the compensation of occupational cancers in France (see CIS 02-201) applicable specifically to lung cancer. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
compensation of occupational diseases; occupation disease relation; pleural mesothelioma; medical examinations; notification of occupational diseases; medical supervision; lung cancer |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
tungsten carbide 1:1; sulfuric acid; iron oxide; cobalt; nickel and compounds; France; silica; asbestos; radioactive substances; dust; aerosols; coal tar; bis(2-chloroethyl) ether; smoke; soot; mesothelioma |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Country / State or Province | France |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
Notification of accidents and diseases
Workers' compensation
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