Gulf War and Health Volume 2 Insecticides and Solvents doc

[...]... dry-cleaning solvents and esophageal cancer Solvents and stomach, rectal, or pancreatic cancer Solvents other than trichloroethylene and mixtures of benzene, toluene, and xylene and colon cancer Insecticides and solvents and hepatobiliary cancers Insecticides and lung cancer Solvents other than tetrachloroethylene and dry-cleaning solvents and lung cancer Solvents and bone cancer Solvents and melanoma... and Parkinson’s disease Insecticides and solvents and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • • • • • 9 Insecticides and solvents and Alzheimer’s disease Solvents and multiple sclerosis Solvents and a long-term reduction in color discrimination Solvents and long-term hearing loss Solvents and long-term reduction in olfactory function Reproductive Effects: • • • Insecticides and solvents and. .. tetrachloroethylene and dry-cleaning solvents and kidney cancer Insecticides and brain and other central nervous system cancers Specific solvents other than benzene and brain and other central nervous system cancers Specific solvents other than benzene and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma Insecticides and solvents and Hodgkin’s disease Insecticides and specific solvents and multiple myeloma Specific solvents other... exposure to insecticides or solvents and spontaneous abortion or other adverse pregnancy outcomes Parental preconception exposure to insecticides or solvents and congenital malformations Other Health Effects: • • • • • • • • Insecticides and aplastic anemia Solvents other than benzene and aplastic anemia Insecticides and solvents and irreversible cardiovascular outcomes Insecticides and solvents and persistent... Tetrachloroethylene and dry-cleaning solvents and esophageal cancer Trichloroethylene and colon cancer Mixtures of benzene, toluene, and xylene and colon cancer Tetrachloroethylene and dry-cleaning solvents and lung cancer Trichloroethylene and cervical cancer Solvents and kidney cancer Benzene and solvents and brain and other central nervous system cancers Parental preconception exposure to solvents and childhood... Studies—Breast Cancer and Exposure to Organic Solvents 23 4 TABLE 6 .22 Selected Epidemiologic Studies—Cervical Cancer and Exposure to Organic Solvents 23 9 TABLE 6 .23 Selected Epidemiologic Studies—Ovarian Cancer and Exposure to Organic Solvents 24 0 TABLE 6 .24 Selected Epidemiologic Studies—Uterine and Endometrial Cancer and Exposure to Organic Solvents 24 1 TABLE 6 .25 Description... nonmelanoma skin cancer Insecticides and soft tissue sarcomas Lindane and solvents and breast cancer Solvents other than trichloroethylene and cervical cancer Solvents and ovarian or uterine cancer Solvents and prostate cancer Insecticides and prostate, testicular, bladder, or kidney cancers Specific solvents other than tetrachloroethylene and dry-cleaning solvents and bladder cancer Specific solvents other... Skin Cancers and Exposure to Organic Solvents 22 7 TABLE 6.18 Selected Epidemiologic Studies—Melanoma Skin Cancers and Exposure to Organic Solvents 22 8 TABLE 6.19 Selected Epidemiologic Studies—Nonmelanoma Skin Cancers and Exposure to Organic Solvents 22 9 TABLE 6 .20 Description of Case–Control Studies of Breast Cancer and Exposure to Organic Solvents 23 1 TABLE 6 .21 Selected Epidemiologic... and acute and adult leukemia Benzene and myelodysplastic syndromes Parental preconception exposure to insecticides and childhood leukemias, brain and other central nervous system cancers, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma Parental preconception exposure to solvents and neuroblastoma and childhood brain cancers Neurologic Effects: • • • Insecticides and solvents and peripheral neuropathy Insecticides and solvents. .. 20 7 Lung Cancer 21 4 Bone Cancer 22 4 Soft Tissue Sarcoma 22 5 Skin Cancer 22 6 Breast Cancer 23 0 Female Reproductive Cancers 23 7 Urologic Cancers 24 1 Brain and Other Central Nervous System Cancers 27 2 Lymphatic and Hematopoietic Cancers 28 2 Non-Hodgkin’s . Gulf War and Health Volume 2 Insecticides and Solvents Committee on Gulf War and Health: Literature Review of Pesticides and Solvents. that focused on the insecticides and solvents to which Gulf War veterans may have been exposed. DOD, VA, RAND researchers, and Gulf War veterans provided