Around 120,000 workers in Europe are diagnosed with work-related cancer every year.

Omissions

• The 120,000 figure is a modelled estimate derived from the Roadmap on Carcinogens (2016), not a count of officially registered/diagnosed cases; it has been the standard reference used by EU bodies (EU-OSHA) since then.
• The same sources note that around 80,000 of these cases result in death each year, and that work-related cancers account for over 45% of all occupational deaths in the EU — context that reinforces the scale of the problem.

Sources

• PrimaryEU-OSHA (European Agency for Safety and Health at Work) — Workers' Exposure Survey (WES) Project overviewAccording to the Roadmap on Carcinogens in 2016, about 120,000 work-related cancer cases occur each year as a result of exposure to carcinogens at work in the EU.
• PrimaryEU-OSHA — Cancer and work (thematic page)Findings from EU-OSHA's Workers' Exposure Survey indicate that nearly half of European workers have probably been exposed to at least one cancer risk factor; work-related cancers account for over 45% of all occupational deaths in the EU, representing more than 100,000 fatalities every year.
• SecondaryThe Parliament Magazine — 'Cancer is the leading cause of work-related deaths in the EU'Every year in the EU, about 120,000 people will develop cancer as a result of exposure to carcinogens at work. Approximately 80,000 of them will die every year.
• SecondaryETUI — 'Silent killer at work' news itemAccording to the Roadmap on Carcinogens, around 120,000 cases of work-related cancer occur each year in the EU as a result of exposure to carcinogens at work, resulting in over 100,000 deaths per year.