Occupational Diseases: A Guide to Their Recognition (Revised Edition) - Chemical Carcinogens (1977)

This was a chapter titled "Chemical Carcinogens" in a June 1977 revised edition of a U.S. government guide, Occupational Diseases: A Guide to Their Recognition, published by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). It was a general overview for physicians, not a study of a group of people, and it reported no new data. The authors wrote that the cancer-causing effects of chemicals in people are difficult to document. They gave examples of occupational chemicals that produce "marker" or unusual forms of cancer, including pleural and peritoneal mesotheliomas due to asbestos. A table of confirmed and suspected occupational carcinogens, arranged by target organ, listed asbestos several times among the confirmed carcinogens. In the scanned copy, the table's columns were too damaged to show reliably which organ each entry belonged to. The authors wrote that observations by alert physicians and workers have often helped identify cancer risks in the workplace. They noted that most suspected carcinogens in a NIOSH registry had not been adequately tested. Much of the scanned text was unreadable.

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