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    Cancro della vescica ed attività lavorativa

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    Bladder cancer is important in Occupational Medicine and in Occupational Epidemiology. Multicentric studies and pooled analysis have contributed in the last few years to the identification and characterization of several risk factors for bladder cancer, both occupational and non-occupational. Currently, it is a research priority the study of genetic susceptibility and its interaction with environmental and occupational exposure to the various bladder cancer risk factors. Bladder cancer management entails a few aspects that directly involved the Occupational Phisycian in different activities such as biological monitoring of chemicals, known or suspected bladder carcinogens, health surveillance, fitness for work, the return to work of the bladder cancer patients and finally epidemiological surveillance and health promotion

    Idee, riflessioni e strumenti operativi per un "nuovo" ruolo del medico competente

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    Over the last few years, following new legislations, events of media impact, transitions in workplaces, Occupational Medicine is at stake. Often, debate is strong about technical-scientific issues in Occupational Physician (OP) activities, ethics and deontology, professional independence, dignity, training and education. The present work develops through personal thoughts, literature data, reporting of concrete personal experience across various occupational settings and risks, with the aim of promoting a "new" role for the OP, enhance his autonomy, professional skills, uniqueness, quality, credibility, while being convinced that it is certainly necessary and possible to conjugate ethics and scientific approach within daily professional activity of the OP, who in turn should be prone to change pace, evaluate effectiveness of his actions, abandon obsolete and useless practices, focussing on a new, proactive, clinical-diagnostic and managerial role, through good medical practices
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