After her husband, Joseph, died of angiosarcoma in January 1989, Dorothy Succi filed a claim against his employer, Gencorp Polymer Products, which operated a PVC plant in Ashtabula, Ohio.
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The most commonly recognized vinyl chloride related cancers include primary non-angiosarcoma liver cancer, primary brain cancer, lung cancer, lymphoma, and cancers of the blood and blood-forming organs.
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In addition, information on other primary bone cancers such as chondrosarcoma, chordoma, spindle cell sarcomas, angiosarcoma and a list of open and recruiting clinical trials will be available in the future.
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In 1972, Maltoni, another Italian researcher for the European vinyl chloride industry, found liver tumors ( including angiosarcoma ) from vinyl chloride exposures as low as 250 ppm for four hours a day.
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In 1993, the keepers of an industry-supported angiosarcoma registry stated in a confidential report that only 173 cases had occurred worldwide, and that " a few more " could be expected.
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In the fall of 1964, Goodrich _ which would be commended for revealing a cluster of angiosarcomas at one of its plants a decade later _ sought help from the Kettering Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati.
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Angiosarcoma of the liver, a rare fatal tumor, has been seen in workers intensively exposed to the gas vinyl chloride monomer ( VCM ) for prolonged periods while working in polyvinyl chloride ( PVC ) polymerization plants.
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The wall of secrecy surrounding vinyl chloride was not breached until Jan . 23, 1974, when B . F . Goodrich announced that it had found three fatal cases of angiosarcoma among workers at its PVC plant in Louisville.
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Angiosarcoma _ whose appearance among employees of a B . F . Goodrich PVC plant in Louisville 25 years ago led to a regulatory crackdown on vinyl chloride _ is a consequence of outmoded technologies and poor industrial-hygiene practices.
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Less common skin cancers include : dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, Merkel cell carcinoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, keratoacanthoma, spindle cell tumors, sebaceous carcinomas, microcystic adnexal carcinoma, Paget's disease of the breast, atypical fibroxanthoma, leiomyosarcoma, and angiosarcoma.
