Word: selikoff
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...trillion can cause birth defects, cancer and other serious illness in laboratory animals. Last week the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reported that 112 of 130 residents tested in Imperial, Mo., near dioxin-contaminated Times Beach, showed abnormalities in blood, liver or kidney functions. Says Dr. Irving Selikoff, director of the environmental-science lab at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan: "No question about it, dioxin is harmful to humans. It is manmade. As a result, the human body doesn't know how to break it down. We store it in our bodies and accumulate...
...Irving Selikoff of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City estimates that currently 8,500 people will die of asbestos-related cancer each year, and that by 1990 the number will reach 10,000 a year...
...names: trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, dichloroethylene, dibromochloromethane, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). These, and many more, are suspected of contributing to the rising incidence of cancer in the U.S. But experts in the field are quick to admit the difficulty of proving the harm caused by chemical wastes. Says Mount Sinai's Selikoff: "When it comes to chemicals and illness, it's hard to prove cause and effect, though we certainly have our suspicions...
...waste changes. The mess is so flammable that the pool has caught fire twice in the past year. In the marshes around New Jersey's Meadowlands sports complex, home of the pro football Giants, some 200 tons of mercury residues have contaminated Berry's Creek, causing Selikoff to declare, "On a bad day, breathing in the Meadowlands may be as dangerous as driving at Indianapolis." The abandoned shafts and tunnels in the hills above Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River lure illegal chemical dumpers. So much poison has been poured for so long into one deep hole near Pittston...
...between prolonged inhalation of asbestos particles and mesothelioma (cancer of the lining of the chest or abdomen). But often the results of such epidemiological studies are not entirely convincing. The problem: scientists must trace effect back to probable cause ratherthan identifying cause and looking for effects. Says Dr. Irving Selikoff, of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center, who established the asbestos-cancer connection: "You're always working backward in this field...