There is a considerable discrepancy between the number of identified occupational-related bladder cancer cases and the estimated numbers particularly in emerging nations or less developed countries where suitable approaches are less or even not known. Thus, within a project of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centres in Occupational Health, a questionnaire of the Dortmund group, applied in different studies, was translated into more than 30 languages (Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese/Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Spanish, Spanish/Mexican, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese). The bipartite questionnaire asks for relevant medical information in the physician's part and for the occupational history since leaving school in the patient's part. Furthermore, this questionnaire is asking for intensity and frequency of certain occupational and non-occupational risk factors. The literature regarding occupations like painter, hairdresser or miner and exposures like carcinogenic aromatic amines, azo dyes, or combustion products is highlighted.
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Golka K, Abreu-Villaca Y, Anbari Attar R, Angeli-Greaves M, Aslam M, Basaran N, Belik R, Butryee C, Dalpiaz O, Dzhusupov K, Ecke TH, Galambos H, Galambos H, Gerilovica H, Gerullis H, Gonzalez PC, Goossens ME, Gorgishvili-Hermes L, Heyns CF, Hodzic J, Ikoma F, Jichlinski P, Kang BH, Kiesswetter E, Krishnamurthi K, Lehmann ML, Martinova I, Mittal RD, Ravichandran B, Romics I, Roy B, Rungkat-Zakaria F, Rydzynski K, Scutaru C, Shen J, Soufi M, Toguzbaeva K, Vu Duc T, Widera A, Wishahi M, Hengstler JG Are you the author?
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Reference: Front Biosci (Elite Ed). 2012 Jun 1;4:2809-22
doi: 10.2741/585
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PMID: 22652680