Amicus calls for inquiry into cancer deaths in computer and semiconductor industry

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.amicustheunion.org/default.aspx?page=4920

Amicus calls for inquiry into cancer deaths in computer and semiconductor industry

6 November 2006
Amicus, the largest manufacturing union in the UK, has called for an inquiry into cancer risks in the computer and semiconductor manufacturing industry following new evidence from the United States.

A US study by Dr Richard Clapp of Boston University looking at death records of men and women who had worked for IBM in the United States found 'significantly greater' cancer deaths than expected based on the national average.

Several individual cancers showed particularly high rates, including cancers of the digestive organs, kidneys, brain and central nervous system and malignant melanoma of the skin. Amongst women, breast cancer, lung cancer, female genital cancer, brain and nervous system cancer rates were all elevated compared with national averages.

Taken with previous studies covering Scotland and the West Midlands, Amicus believes there is sufficient evidence to suggest long term health risks to current and former workers in the semiconductor, chip and computer sector.

FULL story at link above.