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Outdoor working and skin cancer
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- About one in every three deaths that take place from nonmelanoma skin cancer is reportedly caused by working outdoors under the sun.
- The World Health Organization has cautioned regarding this in a joint report along with the International Labour Organization (ILO).
- Nonmelanoma skin cancer "refers to a group of cancers that develop in the upper layers of the skin.
- The two main subtypes of this cancer are basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma."
- As per the report, in 2019, an estimated 28 per cent of the global working-age population was exposed to solar ultraviolet radiation while working outdoors.
- Nearly 19,000 people from 183 countries succumbed to nonmelanoma skin cancer in 2019.
- More than half of these fatalities, about 65 per cent, were males.
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