Chimney sweeps' cancer, also called soot wart or scrotal cancer, is a squamous cell carcinoma of the scrotum. It has the distinction of being the first...
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license chimney sweeps and finally prevent boys being sent up chimneys. The climbing boys, and sometimes girls, were technically called chimney sweeps' apprentices...
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Percivall Pott (section Chimney sweepers' carcinoma)
that cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen, namely chimney sweeps' carcinoma. Many diseases are his namesake including Pott's fracture, Pott's...
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the IARC. In the 18th century a scrotal cancer of chimney sweepers, the chimney sweeps' carcinoma, was already known to be connected to soot. Benzo[a]pyrene...
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cancers have been directly tied to occupational hazards, including chimney sweeps' carcinoma, mesothelioma, and others. Occupational exposure to chemicals...
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Scrotal eczema Scrotal psoriasis disease Riboflavin deficiency Chimney sweeps' carcinoma (scrotal cancer) Anatomy portal Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection...
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surgeon Percivall Pott that chimney sweeps' carcinoma, a cancer of the scrotum, was a common disease among chimney sweeps. With the widespread use of...
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(1714–1788), an English surgeon, described cancer in chimney sweeps (chimney sweeps' carcinoma), the first recognition of an occupational cancer in history...
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Chalicosis Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy Chronic stress Chimney sweeps' carcinoma Coalworker's pneumoconiosis ("black lung") Concussions in sport...
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occupational exposure, during research in 1775 on the cause of chimney sweeps' carcinoma. Modern studies have shown that working with coal tar pitch, such...
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the Radium Girls Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the scrotum among chimney sweeps (see Chimney sweeps' carcinoma) Bernardino Ramazzini in his book...
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Chalicosis Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy Chronic stress Chimney sweeps' carcinoma Coalworker's pneumoconiosis ("black lung") Concussions in sport...
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cleanliness and to the dangers of delay in securing early treatment Chimney sweeps' carcinoma Brockbank 1941 Lee & McCann 1967, p. 148 Catling 1986, p. 179...
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Chalicosis Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy Chronic stress Chimney sweeps' carcinoma Coalworker's pneumoconiosis ("black lung") Concussions in sport...
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Chalicosis Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy Chronic stress Chimney sweeps' carcinoma Coalworker's pneumoconiosis ("black lung") Concussions in sport...
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Chalicosis Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy Chronic stress Chimney sweeps' carcinoma Coalworker's pneumoconiosis ("black lung") Concussions in sport...
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Chalicosis Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy Chronic stress Chimney sweeps' carcinoma Coalworker's pneumoconiosis ("black lung") Concussions in sport...
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Chalicosis Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy Chronic stress Chimney sweeps' carcinoma Coalworker's pneumoconiosis ("black lung") Concussions in sport...
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Chalicosis Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy Chronic stress Chimney sweeps' carcinoma Coalworker's pneumoconiosis ("black lung") Concussions in sport...
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Chalicosis Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy Chronic stress Chimney sweeps' carcinoma Coalworker's pneumoconiosis ("black lung") Concussions in sport...
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his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma". He demonstrated that the roundworm which he called Spiroptera carcinoma (but is correctly named Gongylonema...
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medical literature. Notable examples include: scrotal cancer among chimney sweeps in 18th-century London; osteosarcoma among female watch dial painters...
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discovered in 1775 that cancer of the scrotum was a common disease among chimney sweeps.[citation needed] The work of other individual physicians led to various...
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Percivall Pott’s discovery of the high incidence of scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps demonstrated that charred organic substances were carcinogenic. Wynder...
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mesothelioma, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and scrotal cancer among chimney sweeps to name a few. CERCLA identifies all radionuclides as carcinogens, although...
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chemicals, such as tobacco, soot and tar (leading to scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps, as reported by Percivall Pott in 1775), could serve as carcinogens...
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