Carcinogens

Question 1

What carcinogen, what cancer:

-person works with plastics - PVC pipes

Answer 1

• polyvinyl chloride

- hepatoangiosarcoma

Question 2

What carcinogen, what cancer:

-works in dry cleaners

Answer 2

• carbon tetrachloride

- Liver cancer

Question 3

What carcinogen, what cancer:

- Japanese person that eats fish

Answer 3

• nitrosamines

- stomach cancer

Question 4

What carcinogen, what cancer:

-person works in shipyard

Answer 4

• asbestos

- mesothelioma (lung cancer is actually more likely)

Question 5

What carcinogen, what cancer:

-smoker with ulceration on lower lip

Answer 5

• arsenic

- squamous cell carcinoma (skin cancer)

Question 6

What carcinogen, what cancer:

-smoker with blood in their urine

Answer 6

• napthylamine (azo dye)

- transitional cell cancer

Question 7

What carcinogen, what cancer:

-grain worker in asia with infested grains

Answer 7

• aflatoxin - aspergillus

- hepatocellular carcinoma

Question 8

What carcinogen, what cancer:

-patient on chemotherapy

Answer 8

• alkylating drugs

- leukemia, lymphomas

Question 9

What carcinogen, what cancer:

-alcoholic

Answer 9

• squamous cell carcinoma of oropharynx, upper esophagus
• pancreatic carcinoma
• hepatocellular carcinoma

Question 10

What carcinogen, what cancer:

-worker with metals -

Answer 10

nickel, beryllium, silica, chromium

-lung cancer

Question 11

What cancer does benzene cause?

Answer 11

leukemias