Carcinogens

Study: View Master employees have higher levels of some cancers

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 16th, 2003

Former workers at the View Master plant in Beaverton, Oregon, died of pancreatic cancer twice as frequently as the general population and of kidney cancer three times as often, according to a state and federal study.

State epidemiologists presented their preliminary findings January 21, 2003, to the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in Atlanta. The Oregon scientists hope to win support and financing to continue their research, said Michael Heumann, the study's lead epidemiologist.

For the 25,000 former workers at the plant where View Master toys had been manufactured since 1951, the findings come as the most official...

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