[Reproductive dysfunction and oncologic diseases in women employed in the rubber manufacturing industry]

The study covered analysis of reproductive function, incidence of chronical diseases and gynecologic malignancies in rubber female workers. Hazardous work conditions of rubber production were reported to afflict reproductive function promoting gynecologic diseases and to change the structure of oncologic morbidity. Female workers exposed to occupational hazards of rubber production show some long-term effects of the exposure such as reliably increased reproductive impairments. Mechanism of such impairments may be connected with endocrine disbalance especially with estrogen deficit. As a result of it the changed ratio breast/uterus and ovary cancers is found among female rubber workers in comparison with the general population.