Cancer Mortality Among Chemists

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Abstract
Occupational exposures to chemicals have been implicated in the origin of cancers of the skin, lung, and urinary bladder. To evaluate the cancer experience of chemists in general, study was made of the causes of death among 3,637 members of the American Chemical Society who died between 1948 and 1967. A significantly higher proportion of deaths from cancer was found among male chemists in the two age categories, 20–64 years and over 64 years, as compared with professional men in general (PP <0.05) in the United States. Nearly half the excess cancer deaths were attributed to malignant lymphoma and carcinoma of the pancreas. Despite methodologic imperfections, these findings and other fragmentary data suggest that chemical agents may induce cancers of the pancreas and lymphoid tissue in man.

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