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Table 4 Platinum based anti-cancer drug exposure within past three months

From: Occupational exposure of platinum-based anti-cancer drugs: five-year monitoring of hair and environmental samples in a single hospital

 

2010

2015

No. of workers with experience

No. of workers with experience

Doctor

Nurse

Pharmacist

Doctor

Nurse

Pharmacist

(n = 7)

(n = 42)

(n = 10)

(n = 15)

(n = 46)

(n = 15)

Handling experience

Drug mixing

4

1

5

0

0

12

Bottle or line handling

2

28

0

1

37

0

Incident cases

Needle stick injury

0

0

0

0

0

1

Spill when mixing drugs

0

1

2

0

0

2

Spill when bottle or line handling

0

5

0

0

0

0