But studies in the 1970s showed that vinyl chloride workers exposed to high levels of the chemical developed a rare liver cancer, known as angiosarcoma.
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He was diagnosed with angiosarcoma _ irrefutably tied to vinyl chloride exposure _ in 1988, and was included in a worldwide, industry-maintained registry.
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In January 1989, another of the original General Tire workers, Joseph Succi, was diagnosed with angiosarcoma and quickly died . His friends were flabbergasted.
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McKinley died of angiosarcoma, a rare cancer of the liver associated with exposure to vinyl chloride, the main ingredient in polyvinyl chloride ( PVC ) plastic.
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By the end of 1972, Dr . Cesare Maltoni, an Italian oncologist, had seen angiosarcoma in rats exposed to as little as 250 ppm of vinyl chloride.
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Although General Tire ( renamed GenCorp in 1984 ) was considered a beneficent employer, its conduct changed after angiosarcomas and other cancers began to emerge from the Ashtabula plant.
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Lori Sanzone, a woman diagnosed with angiosarcoma of liver ( ASL ), a type of cancer associated with vinyl exposure, had her diagnosis changed to a different disease.
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Amschwand, the practice director of information technology, was dying of cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare type of cancer that started in his heart and spread to his lungs and brain.
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"I truly believe we can convince the Industrial Commission the angiosarcoma could not have been the result of Joseph's exposures to ` chemicals'at the workplace,"
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Although GenCorp had reported Succi's case to the angiosarcoma registry, it contested his widow's claim for death benefits, saying his ailment could not have been work-related.
