[Cancer incidence among active female workers at Electricité de France-Gaz de France].

Our aim was to draw up a first general view of cancer pathology among the EDF-GDF women thanks to the cancer register among active employees created by the social security department of the French national electric and gas company EDF-GDF. Between 1978 and 1992, 764 cases of cancer were diagnosed. Breast cancer was the most common (52.