BERLIN, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- German Federal Agency for Industrial Safety and Occupational (BauA) showed in their latest study on Wednesday that occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can lead to throat cancer.
As the study said, especially the workers in the coking industry and in the manufacture of producer gas or aluminum, as well as road builders, roofers and chimney sweep are exposed to these materials that are produced during incomplete combustion or carbonization processes.
Among occupationally exposed groups of persons, the probability of this disease increases by around 40 percent, said the study.
Meanwhile, the BauA pointed out, the results of the study can serve as a basis for health-related political decision-making in Germany.
According to a study of the German Cancer Society in 2013, about 4,000 men and 500 women were diagnosed with throat cancer in Germany each year.
In addition to tobacco and alcohol consumption, PAHs, among other different substances, is also a suspected carcinogen.
Poster Comment:
Means rainwater off asphalt shingle roofs contains PAHs.