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Concerns about cancer clusters in the workplace could be resolved more expeditiously, reducing fear and anxiety among employees, a forum on cancer in the workplace was told today (10/12).

Associate Professor Tim Driscoll, from the University of Sydney’s School of Public Health, said there was an understandable uncertainty by employers when it came to concerns about cancer clusters.

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CANBERRA: Australian farmers and their families are being exposed to some of the most dangerous chemicals available, with little training or regulation, a workplace cancer forum was told today (10/12).

Dr Liz Hanna, from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University, told the forum hosted by Cancer Council Australia and the ACTU, that her study (2003) of 1050 farming households in north east Victoria found that 95 per cent of households were using agricultural chemicals, yet only 40 per cent of farmers had undertaken a chemicals user course.

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