Abstract
The medical literature of Great Britain, France, Germany, and, to a lesser extent, that of America contains articles dealing with occupational cancer. No specific ar ticles on cancer of the eye and adnexa have been found. Kenneway, in an article concerning the anatomical distribution of occupational cancer, found 11 cases of eye and eyelid epitheliomas among 100 pitch workers, and 2 cases among 33 tar work ers. Among 38 persons who had 75 can cers due to arsenic only one case in which the eyelid was involved was found. Among 21,510 patients suffering with neoplastic disease, seeking treatment at Memorial Hospital, New York City, dur ing a period of 13 years, Haagensen found 208 cases of ocular cancer (not all were verified by biopsy). At the 1936 meeting of the American College of Surgeons the writer presented a report on an occupational study of cancer of the eye, setting forth the results in 1,000 patients. The cases were equally divided between carcinomas and malig nant melanomas.
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