Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bowing, some weeping. At Shinjuku Gyoen, an imperial garden, the black-painted palanquin was hoisted by 51 members of the Imperial Guard. Above, silk curtains draped the coffin made of Japanese cypress. Within rested the body of Hirohito, the reluctant monarch who on Jan. 7, at 87, succumbed to cancer after occupying the Japanese throne for 62 years...
...study, titled "Intolerable Risk: Pesticides in Our Children's Food," examines recent federal data on the eating habits of infants and youngsters through age five, along with figures on the amount of pesticides in 27 different crops. The information is then used to assess the long-term risk of cancer and neurological problems in these children. Eight of the pesticides are believed to be human carcinogens; all are used on fruits and vegetables frequently consumed by children, including peas, carrots, fruit juices and applesauce. Among the key findings...
...Youngsters receive four times as much exposure on average as adults to the eight carcinogenic pesticides evaluated. As many as 6,200 of today's preschoolers, the study predicts, may develop cancer sometime in their life as a result of pesticide-contaminated produce they consume as children...
...Daminozide (trade name: Alar), a chemical that is used chiefly on red apples and that penetrates the fruit's skin, is the greatest cancer hazard. The NRDC predicts that daminozide use may cause one case of cancer for every 4,200 preschoolers. Though the percentage of children affected -- 0.024% -- is minute, the risk is 240 times the standard considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency -- one case of cancer per million...
...Exposure to four carcinogenic fungicides, including Captan and Mancozeb, may lead to one case of cancer per 33,000 to 160,000 children, two to seven times the allowable risk...