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First, there is no doubt that the inhalation of substantial amounts of asbestos can lead to increased rates of various types of lung disease, including two forms of cancer.

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Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has now been filed in the so-called "lead-in-gasoline cases."

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: bauds of industrial sources (2) or from- contact v-itli asbestos war hers (3) .leads to increased risk or lnusothelioaa.

It has been nome, mutations, and by that mechanism lead to abnor argued that the "same chemical that causes abortion in malities of development in the offspring.

Oerived from the Greek word "repae,"meaning a mar vel, prodigy or monster, the word "teratogenic" was used by 1857 to mean the "production of monstrous for mations or births " The term nas been refined to rerer to the biological science dealing with "the causes, mecha nisms, and manifestations of developmental deviations of either structural or functional nature An agent may act as a teratogen when administered in a number of ways, whether to the male or remale before mating, to the female during pregnancy, or to the tetus directly,' Agents m the environment mav produce alterations in the ge nome. mutations, and bv that mechanism lead to abnor malities ot development in the offspring Viral, drug or chemical agents acting through common pathways may produce indistinguishable results The outcome of such mutations may theoretically be retal detects or predis- from Cornell University Medical UoUene ana Memor^l-Sloan Kettering Cine & Center Sot bO I27"j York Av^ i or* ny 1 <>J21 n pan by a contract *ith tne American Petroleum Institute position to neoplasia.

Agents in the environment may produce alterations in the ge nome. mutations, and by that mechanism lead to abnor malities of development in the offspring.

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1 DRAFT VI Brain Cancer In Petrochemical Workers - A Case Series Report Nineteen primary brain cancer deaths have been found among workers at one United States petrochemical plant.