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West Michigan Woman Fights Same Cancer as Dana Reeve The woman who cared for her paralyzed husband Christopher Reeve for nearly 10 years has died. Forty-four-year-old Dana Reeve passed away Monday night after losing her battle to lung cancer, despite being a non-smoker. Smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer, but doctor's point to people like Dana and Chris as examples of the fact that there are many different ways lung cancer can develop. "Hazardous chemical exposure like asbestos, arsenic, nickel, chromium, those type of things also have been related to lung cancer, says Cathy Kessler of Lacks Cancer Center. |
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Chromium Industry Withheld Evidence of Workplace
Cancer Risk Scientists funded by the chromium industry withheld from the U.S. government key data supporting a strict standard for workplace exposure to hexavalent chromium while the chromium industry fought to block a lower federal workplace exposure level for the potentially deadly metal, according to secret industry documents published Thursday in a scientific journal. |
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Chromium Industry Withheld Key Data from OSHA and Manipulated
Them The chromium industry—which has fought for years to block a lower federal workplace exposure level for hexavalent chromium—withheld from the government key study supporting a strict standard for workplace exposure to the potentially deadly, Public Citizen said today in a paper published in Environmental Health. |
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