Health effects with sufficient evidence for causation for vinyl chloride.
Vinyl chloride tumor.
Total of liver angiosarcoma hepatocellular carcinoma and neoplastic nodules feron et al 1981 oral slope factor.
Vinyl chloride is a deadly toxic chemical despite industry s repeated attempts to hide the threats.
2 1 x 10 5 per µg l continuous lifetime exposure during adulthood.
Vinyl chloride and pvc.
Vinyl chloride is used primarily to make pvc a substance used in products such as pipes.
The cdc also states that vinyl chloride gas can pass through your skin and enter your body.
Creating pvc requires vinyl chloride a dangerous chemical compound.
Vinyl chloride is known to cause cancer in humans especially a rare type of liver cancer called angiosarcoma.
At room temperature it is a colorless sweet smelling gas.
Vinyl chloride exposure is associated with an increased risk of a rare form of liver cancer hepatic angiosarcoma as well as brain and lung cancers lymphoma and leukemia.
One man from a plant in louisville kentucky developed angiosarcoma a rare cancer in his liver.
Vinyl chloride a chemical known to cause cancer poisons the air breathed by workers and people living in contaminated communities.
Vinyl chloride is used to make polyvinyl chloride pvc.
Chronic exposure leads to common forms of respiratory failure emphysema pulmonary fibrosis and focused hepatotoxicity hepatomegaly hepatic fibrosis.
7 5 x 10 1 per mg kg day continuous lifetime exposure during adulthood drinking water unit risk.
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It has also been liked to brain and lung tumors and malignant haematopoietic lymphatic tumors.
Vinyl chloride is a group 1 human carcinogen posing elevated risks of rare angiosarcoma brain and lung tumors and malignant haematopoeitic lymphatic tumors.
Pvc workers are 45 times more likely to develop angiosarcoma.
They are also 5 times more likely to develop liver cancer hepatocellular carcinoma.
Learn about vinyl chloride which can raise the risk of a rare form of liver cancer as well as brain and lung cancers and leukemia and lymphoma.
Listed below are the health effects where the evidence is sufficient to conclude that a causal relationship is at least as likely as not but not sufficient to conclude that a causal relationship exists equipoise and above in people exposed.
It is also explosive and carcinogenic cancer causing.