Skip to content or view screen version

Cadmium causes Cancer.

Concerned for public health. | 29.03.2007 13:42 | Ecology | Health | History | World

Two articles on different sites related to Cadmium causing Cancer.

Cadmium in its Elemental pure metal form.
Cadmium in its Elemental pure metal form.


1.) Inquiry into spray cancer claims:

The effects of cadmium spraying over a city in the 1960s are to be investigated after claims that it was linked with cancer of the oesophagus.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4507036.stm


2.) Evidence accumulates for cadmium cancer link (17 January 2006)

Belgian researchers have shown a definite link between exposure to industrial pollutant cadmium and the risk of contracting lung cancer, arguing that living in a heavily contaminated area is almost as dangerous as smoking.

 http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=10973

Concerned for public health.

Comments