From sksnow@worldnet.att.net Mon Jul 26 13:26:19 1999 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:19:48 -0500 From: Bunny Snow To: SANET-mg Subject: Re: ...causes cancer Dale wrote: <> My father died of brain cancer at the age of 55, which is not elderly. It is actually two years younger than my husband and I are now and we have not yet been retired. I have since learned that vinyl chloride is among the causes of brain cancer and that vinyl chloride, until somewhat recently, was among the misnamed inert ingredient in pesticides! These pesticides were used on agriculture and have been identified in some crops, such as tobacco, according to court testimony in the tobacco cases. An (Internatinal Agency for the Research on Cancer) IARC Working Group reported that there is sufficient evidence for the carcinogenicity of vinyl chloride in humans (IARC S.7, 1987). Vinyl chloride has been associated with tumors of the liver, brain, lung, and hematolymphopoietic system.. A large number of epidemiological studies and case reports have substantiated the causal association between vinyl chloride and angiosarcoma of the liver. Several studies also confirm that exposure to vinyl chloride causes other forms of cancer, i.e., hepatocellular carcinoma, brain tumors, lung tumors, and malignancies of the lymphatic and hematopoietic system. More recently, other substances are suggested as links to brain cancer, such as the genetically engineered enzyme which creates asparatame --Nutrasweet. ''In the U.S., brain cancer has been steadily increasing about 0.7% per year since 1973. This steady increase is noteworthy by itself. However, among people over age 65, brain cancer has been increasing 2.9% each year...Today roughly 17,500 Americans (9600 males, 7900 females) are diagnosed with new brain cancers each year.[1] During the period 1973-1990 brain cancer steadily increased in other industrialized countries as well, especially among the elderly.[2]'' Source: Brain Cancer Update, http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r520.html > [1] Benjamin F. Hankey and others, "Brain and Other Nervous System [Cancers]," in Barry A. Miller and others, editors, SEER CANCER STATISTICS REVIEW 1973-1990 [NIH Publication No. 93-2789] (Bethesda, Maryland: National Cancer Institute, 1993, pgs. III.1-III.20. And: Nigel H. Greig and others, "Increasing Annual Incidence of Primary Malignant Brain Tumors in the Elderly," JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE Vol. 82, No. 20 (October 17, 1990), pgs. 1621-1624. [2] Yang Mao and others, "Increasing Brain Cancer Rates in Canada," CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL Vol. 145, No. 12 (December 15, 1991), pgs. 1583-1591. And: M. Bahemuka and others, "International Mortality from Primary Nervous System Neoplasms: Distribution and Trends," INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY Vol. 17, No. 1 (1988), pgs. 33-38. Are Helseth and others, "Neoplasms of the Central Nervous System in Norway," APMIS Vol. 96 (1988), pgs. 1066-1074. Anders Ahlbom and Ylva Rodvall, "Brain Tumor Trends [letter]," THE LANCET November 25, 1989, pg. 1272. Y. Ben-Shlomo and G. Davey Smith, "[Untitled letter]," THE LANCET November 25, 1989, pgs. 1272- 1273. F. Levi and C. La Vecchia, "Trends in Brain Cancer [letter]," THE LANCET October 14, 1989, pg. 917. And: Anders Ahlbom, "Some Notes on Brain Tumor Epidemiology," in Devra Lee Davis and David Hoel, editors, TRENDS IN CANCER MORTALITY IN INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES [Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 609] (New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1990), pgs. 179-190. Devra Lee Davis and others, "Is Brain Cancer Mortality Increasing in Industrial Countries?" AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE Vol. 19 (1991), pgs. 421-431. And: Devra Lee Davis and others, "Is Brain Cancer Mortality Increasing in Industrial Countries?" in Devra Lee Davis and David Hoel, editors, TRENDS IN CANCER MORTALITY IN INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES [Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 609] (New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1990), pgs. 191-204. To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg". If you receive the digest format, use the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg-digest". To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "subscribe sanet-mg-digest". All messages to sanet-mg are archived at: http://www.sare.org/san/htdocs/hypermail