MamasHealth.com Home Cancer Pages Adrenal cancer Anal cancer Bladder cancer Brain cancer Breast cancer and sex Brain cancer and vinyl chloride Breast cancer Breast cancer treatment Cancer Cancer and aging Cancer drugs Cancer resources Cancer detection Cancer news Colon cancer Chemotherapy Gallbladder cancer Gestational trophoblastic tumors Hodgkin's disease Kidney cancer Leukemia Leukemia & benzene Living with leukemia Liver cancer Lung cancer Lymphedema Melanoma Mesothelioma Multiple myeloma Oral cancer Ovarian cancer Pancreatic cancer Penile cancer Prostate cancer Skin cancer Stomach cancer Testicular cancer Throat cancer Thyroid cancer Treatments Uterine cancer Vaginal cancer Treatment effects Questions to ask your Doctor Prevent breast cancer Breast cancer help Links Email Mama Any day with hair is a good day Intimacy after a mastectomy Personal story about beating cancer	Brain Cancer and Vinyl Chloride Exposure to vinyl chloride is known to cause brain cancer. Vinyl chloride is a toxic chemical compound frequently used in manufacturing. It is a combustible, colorless gas. Vinyl chloride is also known as chloroethene, chloroethylene, and ethylene monochloride. A known human carcinogen, vinyl chloride can cause liver cancer, angiosarcoma, and other health problems in people who are exposed to it. How and where are people exposed to Vinyl Chloride? People are exposed to vinyl chloride by either breathing in air containing vinyl chloride or consuming water contaminated with it. Most people who are exposed to vinyl chloride are exposed to it while at work. People can also be exposed to vinyl chloride if they live near a landfill or near a manufacturing facility that uses vinyl chloride or other hazardous materials. Products with Vinyl Chloride Between the years 1958 and 1974, hair sprays and other aerosols used in salons contained vinyl chloride Industries where employees may be exposed to vinyl chloride: Plant Workers Vinyl Chloride Rail car loaders Fabricators of PVC (poly vinyl chloride) Shower Curtain Makers PVC (poly vinyl chloride) manufacturing Plastics manufacturing Resins manufacturing Rubber manufacturing Automobile Interior Workers Furniture makers PVC (poly vinyl chloride) Construction Transportation workers Beauticians who used hair spray before 1974 What to do if you were exposed to Vinyl Chloride If you believe you are suffering from vinyl chloride exposure, you should contact your doctor. You should also contact an attorney. You should contact an attorney because people injured as the result of the use of a product that contains vinyl chloride have a right to pursue a products liability claim. Lawyers have successfully demonstrated the link between Occupational Exposure of vinyl chloride and serious diseases (liver cancer and brain cancer).	Sign up for our Email Newsletter For Email Marketing you can trust
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