Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Funeral industry workers exposed to formaldehyde face higher risk of leukemia
Published in Hematology Week, December 7th, 2009
Previous studies have shown excess mortality from lymphohematopoietic malignancies and brain cancer in anatomists, pathologists, and funeral industry workers, all of whom may have worked with formaldehyde.
For this study, researchers at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and colleagues investigated the relation of mortality to work...
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