The occurrence of cancer is not only related to genetic changes in the body, but also closely related to the environment we live in. If a person is exposed to an environment prone to cancerous lesions for a long period of time, the chance of developing cancer increases. Therefore, we call cancer caused by long-term exposure to carcinogens in the labor process or labor environment “occupational cancer. Before we officially tell you about “occupational cancer”, let’s guess which occupations increase the risk of cancer? Next, let’s see if your answer is consistent with the most authoritative work types recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO). These occupations, high risk of cancer 1. firefighters, traffic police, miners, asbestos workers – prone to lung cancer, pleural mesothelioma firefighters, traffic police, miners, they are often the direct contact with toxic gases and dust, for years and years down the road, the first to bear the brunt of the damage is the lungs, which is the reason that this group of people’s incidence of lung cancer is higher than the common people. This is also the reason why the incidence of lung cancer in this group of people is higher than that of ordinary people. Asbestos workers are singled out here because they are often “worse off”: (1) Lungs become hard: the reason why people can breathe freely is that the lungs themselves have a certain degree of elasticity. Asbestos dust and asbestos fibers enter the lungs through the respiratory tract, which can cause interstitial fibrosis and pleural fibrosis, leading to hardening of the lungs and thus loss of elasticity. (2) Lung cancer formation: Lung cancer or pleural mesothelioma is not uncommon among asbestos workers. 2. Painters, leather workers – prone to leukemia The pungent odor of paint or leather must have been tried by everyone. Most people just occasionally smell a little bit of hate to immediately retreat, and those painters, leather workers compared to have to say you’re really lucky, those poor workers work 40 hours a week, which is perhaps more than the majority of people in a lifetime all smell the sum of more. Paint, leather contains a large number of volatile harmful substances, such as benzene, toluene, xylene, phenol, formaldehyde, acrylonitrile, butadiene, etc., they enter the human body through the respiratory tract, the skin and the digestive tract and other channels. In addition to causing acute and chronic poisoning, it may also induce leukemia. Although the mechanism is not very clear, medical research has confirmed that painters and leather workers have a higher risk of leukemia. 3. Women who often work night shifts are prone to breast cancer Many kinds of occupations require long-term night work, such as: night-shift medical workers, three-shift factory workers, night-shift airplanes and train crews and other people who work at night for a long period of time, and there are statistical data that show that women in this kind of population have a higher risk of developing breast cancer. This may be related to the human body’s physiological rhythm is disrupted, so that the human body can not maintain normal hormone secretion and immune function, so that cell division is more prone to errors to the point of inducing cancer. 4. Workers engaged in the production of rubber additives and pigments – prone to bladder cancer Aromatic amines used in the production of rubber are strong carcinogens, and their carcinogenicity is much higher than that of formaldehyde. Workers in the chemical industry that produces naphthylamine, benzidine and 4-aminobiphenyl, as well as rubber additives and pigments that use naphthylamine and benzidine as raw materials, are 61 times more likely to develop bladder cancer than the general population. What to do? If, unfortunately, it so happens that one’s occupation belongs to the above mentioned cancer high-risk occupations, approaches similar to quitting and changing jobs right away are not realistic for most people, so what should one do if one wants to minimize the risk of developing the disease? 1. Wet work, good ventilation: first of all, we must improve the environment, for the dust-like pollutants in the air, there is no method more convenient and economical than wet work, for example: when excavating the rock wall, choose a wet rock drill; when the site is leveled, you can be equipped with a sprinkler, so that the dust in the air adheres to the water droplets that are sprayed out. Against harmful gases in addition to reducing their emissions, good ventilation is a good choice. 2. Dress up: Dressing up here doesn’t mean putting on foundation, lipstick, etc. Wear protective masks, goggles, and gloves before operating. These equipment to avoid direct contact with carcinogens can not be missing. 3. Adjust the biological clock: The advice to people who work night shifts for a long period of time is to enhance their physical fitness, adjust their biological clocks to make themselves more adaptable to the rhythm of night shift work, sleep during the day and go to work at night, which in layman’s terms means “living in China on American time”. 4. Do a good job of medical checkups: Since cancer often takes a long time to occur and develop, no matter whether you are engaged in occupations with a high risk of cancer or not, as long as you have been engaged in them, you can’t ignore the risk, and you need to be equally vigilant and undergo the appropriate cancer checkups on a regular basis.