Environmental Cancer

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• Personal Author:
  Selikoff I
• Description:
  The Irish physician's perceptive characterization of an association between cancer of the scrotum in adult male patients and their exposure to soot decades before, while employed as chimney sweeps in childhood and adolescence, solved no pressing clinical problem. The disease was not common then nor is it now (although its setting has changed from the chimneys of 18th century Britain to, for example, the oil-splashed facilities of tool and machine shops). Rather, the clear demonstration that a cause of a well-defined human cancer existed in our environment. and could affect many of those in contact with it was important. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Carcinogens Environment Environmental Monitoring Epidemiology Mortality Neoplasms Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Cancer Cancer-rates Carcinogenesis Etiology Exposure-assessment Exposure-levels Exposure-methods Hazards Health-statistics Low-level-exposure Mortality-studies Oncogenesis Oncogenic-agents Oncogenicity

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• ISSN:
  0036-861X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  30-31
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20036932
• Citation:
  Sciences 1972 Feb; 12(2):30-31
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1972
• Performing Organization:
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19701201
• Source Full Name:
  The Sciences
• End Date:
  19731130
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:778d9984e024ef1ddb5b2454f49680380b820f2342639d3a7865a775575c98d6597d7874a270d42e442e6f6698f9492f489b1818cd8c9de57ebb1c100e77c8a0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/188148/cdc_188148_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.04 MB ]