Women's health: Occupation, cancer, and reproduction: A conference overview

✍ Scribed by Holmfridur K. Gunnarsdottir; Kristina Kjaerheim; Paolo Boffetta; Vilhjalmur Rafnsson; Shelia Hoar Zahm

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 77 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0271-3586
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0274(199907)36:1<1::aid-ajim1>3.0.co;2-n

✦ Synopsis

An international conference titled Women's Health: Occupation, Cancer, and Reproduction was held in Reykjavı ´k, Iceland, May 14-15, 1998, to assess cancer and reproductive risks among working women, and to discuss methodological challenges in occupational studies of women. The conference, formally opened by O ´lafur Ragnar Grı ´msson, President of Iceland, expanded on the themes of a conference, Women's Health: Occupation and Cancer, held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, approximately 5 years earlier . The aims of the Reykjavı ´k conference were to present new information and to stimulate and enhance future research on cancer, including cancer risk among offspring, reproduction, exposure assessment, and other aspects of women's health and occupation.