巴斯德研究所——法国的一个最主要生物医学研究中心——上周宣告,该所的工作人员可能处于患某些癌症的更大危险,妇女在这里主要是被雇用来从事技术工作,而不是当高级科研人员,她们比其它实验室工作人员可能更容易长脑瘤及胰腺瘤。在巴斯德研究所雇员工会于1986年宣称该实验室的癌症发病率异常高之后就进行了一次调查,当时在短期内曾有七例癌症发生。为了调查这些说法成立了一个由流行病学专家及癌症专家组成的小组。调查的第一个结论是:巴黎的巴斯德研究所的工作人员比一般法国人因各种原因死亡的 The Pasteur Institute, one of France's leading biomedical research centers, declared last week that its staff may be at greater risk of developing certain cancers, where women are mainly hired for technical work, Rather than being a senior scientist, they may be more likely to have brain tumors and pancreatic tumors than other lab workers. A survey was conducted after the Pasteur Institute employee's union declared an unusually high cancer incidence in 1986 in 1986, when seven cases of cancer occurred in the short term. To investigate these statements, a team of epidemiologists and cancer specialists was formed. The first conclusion of the investigation was that the staff of the Institut Pasteur in Paris died of various reasons than the average French