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They also instituted a voluntary evacuation within about one mile of the river to limit people's
exposure to benzene fumes — a
known carcinogen.
Do, gluten - free diets put people at a higher risk for excessive and dangerous
exposure to inorganic arsenic, a
known carcinogen?
However, numerous human studies showing a causal association between TCE
exposure and an increased risk for kidney cancer have led NTP to reevaluate and reclassify TCE as
known to be a human
carcinogen.
In small studies of humans,
exposure to this compound was associated with an increased risk of the blood cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but the HHS said it considered the evidence too limited to call pentachlorophenol a
known carcinogen.
They found enough evidence of a link between ortho - toluidine
exposure and an increased risk of bladder cancer to call the chemical a
known carcinogen, according to HHS.
The shortest
known interval between
exposure to a
carcinogen and cancer is about 18 months, which is when the first leukemia cases started appearing after Hiroshima.
Inorganic arsenic is a
known carcinogen, and chronic
exposure to low levels of arsenic has been linked to increased risks of bladder, lung and skin cancer, as well as Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Boric acid has shown some evidence for reproductive toxicity and diatomaceous earth is listed by the State of California as a
known carcinogen for occupational
exposure (not listed by EPA).
In addition to smoking and
exposure to other
known carcinogens, lung cancer can occur as the result of asbestos
exposure.
In applying s. 250 (4), the Tribunal used the presence of a statistically significant cluster of incidence for breast cancer, eight times higher than the standard incident ratio, and a historic
exposure to low levels of a
known carcinogen.