Article: Heavy exposure to solvent linked to cancer.(chemical solvent trichloroethylene)(Brief Article)

The chemical solvent trichloroethylene has a bad reputation these days. The popular nonfiction book A Civil Action (1995, Jonathan Harr, Random House) and its movie version relate how residents of a Massachusetts town came to blame a set of leukemia cases on trichloroethylene and other chemicals in the town's water supply.

In Europe, scientists know trichloroethylene well. During studies of various cancers, they have analyzed patients' exposure to the solvent. While the work hasn't yet produced hard proof that the chemical causes malignancies, German researchers now report strong evidence linking excessive trichloroethylene exposure to cancer via a specific gene mutation.

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