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...Read the label. Preliminary reports may have identified a POTENTIAL CARCINOGEN: methylchloroisothiazolinone, a preservative found in shampoos, conditioners and lotions...
...outweigh the potential dangers of the pesticides to humans. According to the EPA, studies done in the 1970s indicated that Mirex was present in human mothers' milk all over the South. The agency says Mirex and chlordane are both dangerous to human health. "We call Mirex a possible human carcinogen. Mr. DeLay might disagree with that, but we believe the studies," says Sylvia Lowrance, an EPA spokeswoman. Other nonpartisan groups, including the Inter national Agency for Research on Cancer, agree . Both pesticides are banned in some European and South American countries...
...students say that paint is not the only offensive material being sprayed. Fumes persist from students spraying acetone, a carcinogen used in Xerox transfer of prints...
...Many blacks lack an enzyme that breaks down a key carcinogen in tobacco smoke, which may help explain why black men who smoke are 48% more likely to develop lung cancer than white men who smoke...
Cancer-causing mutations can occur quite by accident. But chronic exposure to carcinogens -- chemicals whose by-products bind to DNA and damage it -- greatly accelerate the rate at which dividing cells make errors. Proven carcinogens include asbestos, benzene and some ingredients of cigarette smoke. Many carcinogens, it turns out, are not blunderbusses but leave highly individualized fingerprints in the DNA they touch. At the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Curtis Harris, a molecular epidemiologist, has been examining cells from liver- and lung-cancer patients, searching for mutations in a tumor-suppressor gene known as p53 (p stands for the protein...