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THE.PLAIN DEALER. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1974
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2 chemicals suspected as cause of rare form of fatal cancer
By John Nussbaum
Vinyl chloride and polyvi: nv 1 chloride, synthetic . cnemlcals used in a variety of manufacturing processes, * are suspected culprits in i three fatal cases of a rare i form of caqcer.
The chemicals are the subject of intense investiga tions by the B. F. Goodrich Co., the United Rubber Workers and the Interna tional1 Chemical Workers Unions, National Institute of
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Health (NIOSH) and the one plant drew attention is marilo, president of the.
Occupational Safety and that only about 21 cases a URW and chairman of the
Health Administration.
year are reported in the i health and welfaro division
The investigations big an
when Goodrich on Jai. 22 reported it was examining all employes involved in producing and handlin ' the chemicals to determine whether three deaths rom hemangiosarcoma (cancer
of the blood vessels) oi 1hei liver were job-related.
United States, according to the chemical union. The un-1 ion has asked its 90,000 members in the United States and Canada to fur nish data they may have about the use and effects of the chemicals.
Investigation of the chem icals, and possible regula-
0 f the AFL-CIO industrial union, and representatives of the unions, government health agencies and the public health schools of Harvard University and the University of North Caroli-
na. The two universities conduct the URW's occupa tional health program.
The deaths occurred in tory government action,
December 1973, March 1!)73 and September 197. in Goodrich's plant in Lit isville, Ky. The URW says
will be coordinated at a meeting Tuesday in the Sheraton Hopkins Interna ' tional Airport.
The unions and Goodrich had met with Dr. Selikoff's staff at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital Jan. 30 and in Washington last week, ac
another 1968 cancer tenth The conference will in cording to a URW spokes
may stem from the same clude Dr. Irving Selikoff, a man. Another meeting is
cause.
New York occupational scheduled Friday in Wash
The reason the casts in health expert; Peter Bom- ington. The U. S. Labor. De
partment may be asked to
set emergency standards
for the chemicals during the
investigation.
The government recently issued standards for jL4 chemicals discovered to cause cancer, but vinyl chloride and polivinyl chlo rides were not included.
Dr. Selikoff figured prom inently in research leading to the identification of the 14 chemicals. He also was in strumental in the identifica tion in recent years of asbesdosis, a lung disease, as an occupational disease of asbestos workers.
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1 Louis Beliczky, the chem ical workers union's director of industrial hygiene, said chemical-related can
cer "usually has a latency of up to 20 ye. rs." Since the use of vinyl i; relatively re cent, he said it is possible the cases oi liver cancer discovered s> far may be the first of se -eral more.
If the cliem :als are found to be the can ;e, safeguards could be ests olishecl to pro tect potential /ictiros.
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