The Causal Association Between Occupational, Environmental, and Lifestyle Factors and Reproductive Cancer Risk

A large number of synthetic chemicals are added into the environment during the last 3–4 decades due to industrial revolution and contemporary lifestyle adopted. Some are potential reproductive toxicants and might have teratogenic, mutagenic, or carcinogenic potential. Often occupational exposures are much higher than environmental exposures, thereby increasing incidence of reproductive cancer thought to be related to the exposure to persistent chemicals especially endocrine disruptors, compounded by lifestyle factors. The data suggests that exposure to some organochlorine compounds, ionizing, electromagnetic radiations, etc. and lifestyle factors (dietary and sexual practices) may have potential to induce cancer of reproductive organs with sparse evidence, and validating outcomes for such a relationship is also lacking. However, positive findings encourage avoiding such exposure and desisting from such lifestyle habits. There is a need to protect human beings from exposure to environmental/industrial chemicals by advocating not using them or replacing with less harmful/non-toxic chemicals and adopting healthy lifestyle.