| Dangers of Benzene and Science |
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| Monday, 03 November 2008 20:42 |
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A number of recent studies and reviews of leukemia and its relationship to Benzene exposure have been published. Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, concluded that benzene was linked to many forms of leukemia including acute myelogenous leukemia AML as well as acute and chronic lymphocytic and myeloid leukemia (Savitz, D., and Andrews, K.,"Review of Epidemiologic Evidence on Benzene and Lymphatic and Hematopoietic Cancers," Amer. J. Industrial Health 31:287-295 (1997). However, Benzene has a long history in the medical literature. As early as the 1920s, Benzene was linked to leukemia in a published study. TheAmerican Petroleum Institute noted in the 1940s benzene caused leukemia noted that any level of exposure to benzene posed risks. A major epidemiologic study of benzene of exposed workers demonstrated the risks of leukemia appeared in 1977. The scientific studies indicate workers who use solvents are at risk of developing cancer and blood diseases from exposure to benzene. |