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The classic carcinogens continue to play a significant role. These include asbestos, benzene, various metals (chromium, nickel, arsenic). Cancer cases represent a growing part of occupational diseases in Korea during the last 10 years. The growing number of occupational cancers is caused by former exposure to benzen. In particular, I would today the most important cancer risk include benzene in the workplace. The benzene content in gasoline must be decrease for health protection of worker, otherwise occupation safety and health acts must be applied, for health prevention for worker. Because of lack of occupation safety and health would have meant that workers often seriously ill, such as leukemia, lymphatic cancer or multiple sclerosis. Cancers by Benzene have a very special role in public perception. The cause of death is cancer of the blood responsible in Korea. The social insurance act must be an occupational disease as an insurance case, acknowledge, provided they present certain conditions. These act have given the historical origin of protection against occupational disease. This also cancers can be recognized an occupational disease by benzene, even if they have not found acceptance into the list of Berufskrankheiten. However, it must precede the detection of the individual probability of evidence of general security of the causal connection.