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Toxicant and Disease Database

The CHE Toxicant and Disease Database is a searchable database that summarizes links between chemical contaminants and approximately 180 human diseases or conditions. Diseases and or toxicants can be viewed by utilizing the search options below. See a full description of the database and our methodology.

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ethylene oxide

CAS number: 75-21-8

Diseases linked to this toxicant    Grouped by strength of evidence

Strong Evidence

Adult-onset leukemias

Contact dermatitis - irritant

Fetotoxicity (miscarriage / spontaneous abortion, stillbirth)

Peripheral neuropathy

Good Evidence

Asthma - allergen, sensitizer

Cataracts

Leukoderma (hypopigmentation)

Preterm delivery

Psychiatric disturbances (disorientation, hallucinations, psychosis, delirium, paranoias, anxiety/depression, emotional lability, mood changes, euphoria)

Pulmonary edema

Skin cancer (non-melanoma)

Stomach cancer

Limited Evidence

Abnormal sperm (morphology, motility, and sperm count)

Brain cancer - adult

Breast cancer

Congenital malformations - general

Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma)

Low birth weight / small for gestational age / intra-uterine growth retardation

Lung cancer

Mesothelioma

Pancreatic cancer

Reduced fertility - male (infertility and subfertility)

Skeletal malformations

Uterine cancer

References

Hruska KS, Furth PA, Seifer DB, Sharara FI, Flaws JA. Environmental factors in infertility. Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2000 Dec;43(4):821-9.

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Agents Classified by the IARC Monographs. Accessed in 2010.

Klaassen CD, Ed. Casarett and Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 6th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill 2001.

LaDou J, Ed. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 3rd Edition. New York: Lange Medical/McGraw-Hill Company, 2004.

Leikauf GD. Hazardous air pollutants and asthma. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002 Aug;110 Suppl 4:505-26.

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (California Proposition 65).

Rom WM. Environmental and Occupational Medicine, 3rd Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers, 1998.

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