A recent decision by a South Korean Administrative Court found that the ovarian cancer which killed a Samsung plant worker at the age of 36 bore a “significant causal relationship” to her long-term exposure to certain chemicals involved in the process of making silicon chips. The deceased worker, Lee Eun-joo, began her career at the Samsung factory in 1993 at the age of 17 and died in 2012. She had battled the disease for more than a decade and died after working for the company for six years. Doing the math reveals that she worked at Samsung from 1993 through 1999, and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer around 2001. Read more.
Science Overruled on Causes of Cancer
