The research team tracked 50,000 people in Ontario prisons from 2000 to the present to see how many people have had cancer over the past 17 years.
Results showed that between 2000 and 2012, 2.6% of men and 2.8% of men worked in prisons, prisons that were diagnosed with cancer. Among common men are lung , prostate, colorectal and head and neck cancer, while the most common types of cancer for women are breast, lung and cervical cancer.
And there were 1.1% of men and 0.9% of women who died of cancer. The mortality rate in men is 1.6 times higher, in which women are 1.4 times higher than those who live in normal conditions.
Dr. Kouyoumdjian said the study showed that we need to prioritize cancer prevention efforts for those working in prisons, prisons .
' They need to be prioritized to monitor and improve periodic health with public health programs ' - she said.
" The specific strategy that we can prevent cancer for this group of people is to ban smoking, HPV and HBV vaccination, pap screening and hepatitis C treatment, and prevention and prevention strategies. Other, especially the young team working in prisons and prisons ".