CANCER RESEARCH INFORMATION ON POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS.

 

CANCER RESEARCH TODAY AND YESTERDAY.

cancer

(KAN-ser)

"A term for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and can invade nearby

tissues. Cancer cells can also spread to other parts of the body through the blood and

lymph systems. There are several main types of cancer. 

1. Carcinoma is a cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover internal organs. Sarcoma is a cancer that begins in

bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.

2. Leukemia is a cancer that begins in blood-forming tissue, such as the bone marrow, and 

causes too many abnormal blood cells to be made. 

3. Lymphoma and multiple myeloma are cancers that begin in the cells of the immune system. Central nervous system cancers are 

cancers that begin in the tissues of the brain and spinal cord. Also called malignancy."

• •     Patient Education Publications
  •    PDQ® 
  •     Fact Sheets
  •     NCI Dictionaries
    • Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    • Drug Dictionary
    • Dictionary of Genetics Terms
  • "An early link between cancer and chemicals was found in the late 1700's when an English physician noted that a large number of chimney sweeps had cancer of the scrotum due to exposure to soot, which contains chemicals known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
  •  Since then, many more chemicals have been identified as known or suspected causes of cancer.
  •  Today, much of what we know about chemicals causing cancer in humans we have learned from workers exposed at their jobs."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS WERE FOUND IN SOOT AND LINKED

TO CANCER IN THE 1700'S.

TODAY, MILLIONS OF CARS CONTINUE TO BURN GASOLENE CREATING FINE 

PARTICULATES OF SOOT, HOWEVER, INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES OR (ICE) 

MACHINES ARE ONLY PART OF THE PROBLEM. LARGE INDUSTRIAL POLLUTERS                                                                                                                                                                               ARE THE MAJOR PART OF THE PROBLEM AND WE NEED UNITED INTERNATIONAL 

GOVERNMENT ACTIONS TO STOP HUMAN CREATED AND MONEY MOTIVATED

POLLUTION ONCE AND FOR ALL!