Cytostatic drugs and risk of genotoxicity in health workers. A literature review.

Objective: To analyse the genotoxic risk of cytostatic drugs in health professionals after occupational exposure.

Method: Literature was searched for the databases PubMed, Lilacs, The Cochrane Library and Scopus with free and controlled language (MeSH terms) using boolean operators AND and OR. The research was limited to articles published between 2005-2016.

Cystostatic drugs and risk of genotoxicity in health workers. A literature review.

Objective: To analyse the genotoxic risk of cytostatic drugs in health professionals after occupational exposure.

Method: The literature was searched using the databases PubMed, Lilacs, The Cochrane Library and Scopus with free and controlled language (MeSH terms) using Boolean operators AND and OR. The research was limited to articles published between 2005-2016.