There is a marked social class bias in occupational cancer, this report concludes. Author Peter Infante calls for a “much greater national effort”  to reduce exposures, adding: “Our failure to make that effort is resulting in a disproportionate (and preventable) cancer burden being borne by blue collar workers.” Infante notes that about 95 per cent of causes of lung cancer were identified in workplace studies, and if you discount drugs over threequarters of all causes of cancer were identified in studies of workers.

Infante P. Cancer and blue-collar workers: Who cares? New Solutions, volume 5, number 2, 1995.