RE: Information desired
From: | "Horn, Hazel V" <HornHV@archildrens.org> |
Actually, I can think of at least 6 histotechs who have died from cancer and
that's just the few I know. I do think it is a problem.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patsy.Ruegg@UCHSC.edu [SMTP:Patsy.Ruegg@UCHSC.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 11:31 AM
> To: RSRICHMOND@aol.com; HistoNet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: RE: Information desired
>
> Ah, come on. If you read what I said, I said I had not seen much cancer
> in
> histotechs, I think that is hardly being alarming.
> Patsy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RSRICHMOND@aol.com [mailto:RSRICHMOND@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 7:11 AM
> To: HistoNet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: Re: Information desired
>
> Patsy Ruegg writes about histotechnologists and other
> technologists with
> leukemias, lymphomas, and other cancers.
>
> Anecdotal information in this area is worse than useless -
> it alarms people
> without providing any needed information. Remember that at
> least a third of
> us will eventually get cancer.
>
> What is needed is a registry of histotechnology workers that
> would track
> their medical histories, at least to the extent of obtaining
> and analyzing
> death certificates. The AMA does this for physicians, and
> useful data has
> been obtained that way - for example, excessive chronic
> myelocytic leukemia
> in old time radiologists. (Pathologists as far as I know do
> not have a
> different cancer experience from other physicians.)
>
> Histotechnologists probably get more aromatic (xylene,
> toluene) exposure and
> less formaldehyde exposure than pathologists. It would be
> interesting to find
> out if histotechnologists have more chronic myelocytic
> leukemia and
> myeloproliferative disorders than other medical
> technologists do, since these
> diseases are known to be related to aromatic solvent
> exposure.
>
> Unfortunately, the fact that so many histology workers are
> uncertified and
> transient would make a registry of this sort extremely
> difficult to put
> together. Particularly since it's probably the marginal
> workers in the field
> who get the most sol
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