Risk of Cancer in a Community Exposed to Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) emissions from a plastic coating industrial source in southern New Hampshire (NH) have contaminated at least 65 square miles of drinking water. Prior research indicates that high levels of PFAS are associated with a variety of adverse health outcomes, including an increased risk of cancer. Reports indicate that mean blood serum levels of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), one type of PFAS, in residents of the exposed community are more than 2 times greater than the mean blood serum level in the US. Merrimack public water supply customers also have higher average blood levels of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (PFHxS) than the time-matched US average. A 2018 report concludes that the incidence r

SUBMITTER: Messmer MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8842173 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature