By Dr. W. C. Hueper (auth.)
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Nickel: Chronic dermatitis, chronic bronchitis, chronic chemical pneumonitis, adenocystic degeneration of bronchioli, chronic rhinitis, carcinoma of nares and paranasal sinuses. Radioactive Chemicals: Chronic bronchitis, radiation pneumonia, anemia and leukemia, hypoplastic and hyperplastic changes in bone marrow, cancer of lung, cancer of nasal sinuses. Coal Tar: Chronic dermatitis, tar warts, melanoderma, cornified horns on exposed skin, chronic rhinitis with loss of sense of smell and taste, bituminosis of lung, chronic bronchitis, papillomas and cancers of skin, cancer of lung.
In fact, they may elicit in the same lung multicentric cancers of different histologic type and, in animals, also sarcomas (Table 25). The reasons for such different histologic responses of the bronchial mucosa are Table 25. Histologic Types of Lung Cancers in Man Induced by Several Occupational Carcinogens Carcinogen Arsenic. Chromium. Asbestos Silica (Control). Ionizing Radiation Coal Tar Nickel (Nares) . Mustard Gas Controls-Males (DoRNand CUTLER) SquamousCell Ca. Histologic Types of Lung Cancers RoundCell Ca.
The Commission could find no occupational damage in 600 asbestos workers. S. Labor Bureau Statistics Bulletin, assured the insurance companies that the early deaths among asbestos workers were due to tuberculosis. It is a pretty exercise in medical history to consult textbooks of pathology from 1910 to 1930. They are uniformly blank on asbestosis. " The former astounding lack of medical and epidemiologic information has changed for the better in recent years, although it has remained rather defective in some countries (MITCHELL).
