Occupational bronchopulmonary cancers

The aim of our work was to identify occupational exposures at the origin of bronchopulmonary cancers (PBC ) in a population of patients followed in the Pneumology Department of the University Hospital Center (CHU) H di Chaker of Sfax and to determine the causes of under-reporting in occupational diseases. As a result, Any incident case of primary PBC, diagnosed in 2015 in the Pneumology Department of the CHU H di Chaker of Sfax was included in the study. Exposure to occupational respiratory carcinogens was studied from a standardized occupational interrogation. If the subject fulfilled the various conditions listed in the tables of occupational diseases provided for by article 3 of law number 94-28 of 21 February 1994, a declaration of occupational disease was made. Our study revealed that the imputability of PBC to occupational origin is far from negligible. It contrasts with an under-reporting of occupational diseases. To remedy this shortcoming is to establish a more effective policy for the identification of occupational exposure to carcinogens.