Researchers confirmed a link between thyroid cancer and hormone-disrupting forever chemicals found everywhere from frying pans to firefighting foam.
Every time PFAS levels in blood doubled, cancer risk increased by 56 percent. Cancer-linked PFAS are everywhere and contaminate soil and drinking water. READ MORE: Makers of 'forever chemicals'Certain 'forever chemicals' may raise the risk of one of the fastest growing cancers in America, a study suggests.
The chemical studied here is called n-PFOS, which is most commonly used as a stain repellant in clothing and carpeting, as well as a grease-resistant coating for food packaging. Dr Lauren Petrick, a public health professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and co-author of the study, said: 'To our knowledge, this is the first human study to look at associations between PFAS exposure and risk of thyroid cancer diagnosis.'
When the system for managing and producing hormones is disrupted, the result can be unfettered cell growth and replication, a hallmark of cancer growth. All of the study subjects, whose average age was 46, came from the New York metropolitian area, which researchers considered a major benefit because it gave them 'a diverse ethnic population'.
And 10 percent had a type of thyroid cancer of unknown origin, though some may have had the most adganced and agressive variety, anaplastic thyroid cancer. Advertisement They also line help make up firefighting foam, food packaging and coat carpeting to repel stains. They have even been used in children's toys.
And there is evidence to show that bad actors including DuPont and 3M knew about the deleterious effects of exposure to the very chemicals they were producing as far back as the 1960s. But the company did not reveal the findings, instead saying the following year that: 'We know of no evidence of birth defects caused by at DuPont.'But rather than remove the chemicals from their manufacturing processes, the companies sat on that information, allowing risky products to enter people's homes.
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