Burden of disease and societal costs of work-related cancer in the European Union

woensdag 25 mei 2016 15:00

Yearly approximately 122,600 people in the EU are diagnosed with cancer, caused by past exposure to carcinogenic substances at work. As a result, an estimated 79,700 people in the European Union die every year. Health care expenditure and productivity losses are estimated to cost between €4-7 billion annually for the European Union. These are the outcomes of calculations by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM.