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Is there a link between work‐related stress and colorectal cancer?
Author(s) -
Spigelman Allan D,
Dwyer Peter
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb05970.x
Subject(s) - colorectal cancer , link (geometry) , medicine , stress (linguistics) , oncology , work (physics) , cancer , computer science , engineering , computer network , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy
The South Australian Workers Compensation Tribunal has found that stress contributed to a man's colorectal cancer. The medical evidence for this is very limited, and the case highlights the difference between scientific and legal proof.