THE journalists' union wants the ABC to extend its cancer cluster investigation to other Brisbane sites after another breast cancer diagnosis for a former employee.
Angela Eckersley, 40, yesterday became the 15th case of breast cancer at the ABC's one-time studios at Toowong.
Ms Eckersley worked at Toowong for about seven years, leaving two years ago. She had worked up to four shifts a week on the same newsroom production desk as many of the other women diagnosed with the disease since 1994.
ABC staff left the site just before Christmas last year.
An expert panel has since found women who worked at the Toowong studios from January 1994 to July 2006 had a six times greater risk of developing breast cancer than other Queensland women but could not pinpoint a cause.
Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance Queensland secretary David Waters yesterday called on the ABC to widen the investigation to include all sites around Brisbane where ABC employees work.
"Testing of current sites is paramount if employees are to be further reassured about the safety at work," he said.
In a statement, ABC managing director Mark Scott said: "I want to make sure ABC staff know that everything possible is being done in this area of investigation."
AAP