Surface Contamination by Antineoplastic Drugs in Two Oncology Inpatient Units

Abstract

Hazardous drugs pose risks to health care workers. To reduce the risk of occupational exposure for all workers, several protective and monitoring measures have been recommended and implemented over the past two decades. This study was undertaken to describe traces contamination with ten antineoplastic drugs in the oncology care unit of two university hospitals.

Keywords

• hazardous drugs
• trace contamination
• environmental surveillance
• occupational exposure