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• vinyl chloride — A substance used to make plastics. Exposure to vinyl chloride may increase the risk of developing liver, brain, and lung cancers; lymphoma; and leukemia …   English dictionary of cancer terms

• Vinyl chloride — IUPAC name …   Wikipedia

• Vinyl chloride — A substance used in manufacturing plastics that is known to be toxic and carcinogenic (cancer causing). Dangerous exposure to vinyl chloride occurs mainly in the workplace. Breathing high levels of vinyl chloride for short periods of time can… …   Medical dictionary

• vinyl chloride — Chem. a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water soluble gas, C2H3Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.… …   Universalium

• Vinyl siding — is an alternative to aluminum siding, fiber cement siding, and timber siding. It is an engineered product, manufactured primarily from polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, resin, giving vinyl siding its name. In the UK and New Zealand a similar material… …   Wikipedia

• Vinyl fluoride — IUPAC name Fluoroethene …   Wikipedia

• Cancer professionnel — Les cancers, toutes localisations confondues, représentent la deuxième cause de mortalité en France derrière les maladies cardiovasculaires. Evolution du nombre de décès par cancer en France[1] Hommes 85 600 décès en 1990 90 800 décès en 2003… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Polyvinyl chloride — Polyvinyl chloride, (IUPAC Polychloroethene) commonly abbreviated PVC, is a widely used thermoplastic polymer. In terms of revenue generated, it is one of the most valuable products of the chemical industry. Around the world, over 50% of PVC… …   Wikipedia

• Risk factors for breast cancer — Risk factors of breast cancer may be divided into preventable and non preventable. Their study belongs in the field of epidemiology. Breast cancer, like other forms of cancer, is considered to result from multiple environmental and hereditary… …   Wikipedia

• liver cancer — ▪ pathology Introduction       any of several forms of disease characterized by tumours in the liver; benign liver tumours remain in the liver, whereas malignant tumours are, by definition, cancerous. Most malignant liver tumours are hepatomas,… …   Universalium

• Adult primary liver cancer — 1. A tumor in which the cancer starts during adulthood in cells in the liver. Also called hepatocellular carcinoma. Primary liver cancer is different from cancer that has metastasized (spread) from another place in the body to the liver. The… …   Medical dictionary