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Diesel
Exhaust Exposure Raises Ovarian Cancer Risk
(NY, Reuters Health, 8/13/04)
From 1971 to 1995, Dr. Johannes Guo, of the Finnish
Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, and colleagues,
followed a large group of Finns, who were born between 1906
and 1945. The investigators used data from the 1970 population
census to calculate cumulative exposure (CE) to diesel and
gasoline engine exhausts and the Finnish Cancer Registry to
identify throat cancers, ovarian cancers, testicular cancers,
kidney cancers, bladder cancers and leukemias. When the
scientists cross-referenced cumulative exposure with cancer
incidence, they discovered a link between increasing exposure
to diesel exhaust and rising ovarian cancer risk.
(International Journal of Cancer,
August 20, 2004) |
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