Re: Benzene tied to leukemia- see what all it entails......

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Dear Lottie and folks,

Thanks for this post. In my home state, Iowa, they are testing the

waters of the surrounding rivers and such for this chemical. It seems

everyone in my home town has a cancer of some sort....

I went on line to see just exactly we find benzene in and came up with

this in the net; this scares the heck out of me - and I already have

the disease!! I was a haridresser and used dyes ( still dye my own

hair), I smoked for 17 years, I had carbon monixide poisoning from

scooping out the snow from behind my car- engine running, I lived in a

town that was a farm community, that used herbicides and pesticides

often that would run into our water source at any rainfall. I could go

on and on. I just think we should really take a hard look at what we

are doing to our earth - - and its people.

THanks again.

Barb

See the link below for more:

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/benzene/basics/facts.asp

<http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/benzene/basics/facts.asp>

, " Lottie Duthu " <lotajam@...> wrote:

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> November 18, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Research from Italy

provides new evidence that exposure to the industrial solvent benzene

increases a person's risk of developing multiple myeloma.

> Dr. Adele Seniori Constantini of the Center for Study and Prevention

of Cancer and her colleagues also found an increased risk of chronic

lymphoid leukemia with benzene exposure. Two other oil-derived

industrial chemicals, xylene and toluene, were also tied to greater

chronic lymphoid leukemia risk.

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> Benzene, a known carcinogen, is used in the manufacturing of plastic,

synthetic rubber, dyes and drugs. It is understood to cause acute

myeloid leukemia, but its association with multiple myeloma and chronic

lymphoid leukemia risk " are still under debate, " Constantini and her

team explain in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine.

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> To investigate, they identified all cases of blood and lymphatic

cancers diagnosed in people 20 to 74 years old between 1991 and 1993 in

11 regions in Italy, including a total of 2,737 malignancies. In the

current study, they looked at 586 cases of leukemia found in seven of

the regions, comparing chemical exposures for the ill individuals to

those for 1,278 controls based on occupation.

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> There was no association between acute myeloid leukemia and benzene,

probably, the researchers say, because the disease develops within a

relatively short time after exposure, and the cases were diagnosed about

30 years after benzene was " effectively banned " by a 1963 law limiting

the amount used in industrial materials to 2 percent.

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> The researchers did find a link between multiple myeloma and chronic

lymphoid leukemia and benzene exposure.

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> Overall, medium to high levels of benzene exposure nearly doubled the

risk of these two blood cancers. The more intense exposure was and the

longer it lasted, the greater the risk.

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> Being exposed to medium to high levels of benzene for more than 15

years increased a person's chronic lymphoid leukemia risk 4.7-fold,

while the same degree of exposure to xylene more than tripled risk.

Similar exposure to toluene boosted chronic lymphoid leukemia risk

4.4-fold. However, the increased risk for multiple myeloma was only seen

with benzene, not with exposure to the other two chemicals.

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> " Our results, " the team concludes, " even if based on small numbers,

are in agreement with the hypothesis that acute myeloid leukemia risk

following benzene exposure declines in time while chronic lymphoid

leukemia and multiple myeloma risks are not seen until a longer latency

period has passed. "

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> SOURCE: American Journal of Industrial Medicine

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> FYI,

> Lottie

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