Dorothy Succi also might have been interested in a Nov . 2, 1983, company memo, which states : " It is accepted within the medical and scientific communities that VC ( vinyl chloride ) is the causal agent of angiosarcoma in victims who have worked in the VC or PVC industry ."
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"There's no way of knowing for sure if it's a first, but my guess is it probably is, " because Wardan's illness, angiosarcoma of the heart, is so rare, said Dr . Joel Tepper, president-elect of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.
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In 1997 the U . S . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) concluded that the development and acceptance by the PVC industry of a closed loop polymerization process in the late 1970s " almost completely eliminated worker exposures " and that " new cases of hepatic angiosarcoma in vinyl chloride polymerization workers have been virtually eliminated ."
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A eulogy for Coppens, published in Intrepid's January print edition, included a quotation from Coppens'final post to his personal blog : " I was diagnosed with an extremely rare case of cancer, " angiosarcoma ", which affects less than 200 people in the U . S . ( each year ).
