Sarcoma risk and dioxin emissions from incinerators and industrial plants: a population-based case-control study (Italy)

Abstract

Background: It is not clear whether environmental exposure to dioxin affects the general population. The aim of this research is to evaluate sarcoma risk in relation to the environmental pollution caused by dioxin emitted by waste incinerators and industrial sources of airborne dioxin. The study population lives in a part of the Province of Venice (Italy), where a population-based cancer registry (Veneto Tumour Registry -RTV) has been active since 1987.

Cancer values of prevented fatalities (VPFs), one size does not fit all: The benefits of contaminated site cleanups in Italy

“…The cancer VPF estimates of this paper could also be used to estimate the monetized benefits of regulations that impose higher emission standards on hazardous or solid waste incinerators (Zambon et al, 2007), benefits of various Pay-As-YouThrow policies, which reduce the amount of land filled and/or incinerated waste (Šauer et al, 2008) or attempt to reduce the risk of industrial accidents where carcinogens are released into the environment (Pesatori et al, 2009). Alberini et al (2007) study requires the marginal utilities of risk reduction and income, and the discount rate estimated from that study, and these estimates are correlated, we used the original maximum likelihood estimation routine, and a simulation procedure based on 20,000 replications to compute the standard errors around (as shown in eq 7).…”

Spatial analysis of health effects of large industrial incinerators in England, 1998–2008: a study using matched case–control areas

“…Porta et al 12 report an increased risk in cancer of 3.5% for people living close to old incinerators but note that studies suffer from limitations due to poor exposure assessment, ecological level of analysis and lack of information on relevant confounders. Most of these, and other studies, [13][14][15][16][17] are concerned with older incinerators, and their results may not be applicable to incinerators currently in operation and under tighter regulatory control.…”

Rare skin cancer: A population-based cancer registry descriptive study of 151 consecutive cases diagnosed between 1980 and 2004.

“…Angiosarcomas can be induced by ionizing radiation and the number of radiation treatments has increased since 1980 [30]. Among other potential risk factors for sarcomas are environmental or occupational exposure to chemical agents including pesticides, herbicides and dioxin [31,32]. Population ageing and ultraviolet exposure may also contribute to the increasing incidence since most of adnexal and Merkel cell carcinomas develop on sun-exposed sites in the elderly.…”