著者
野見山 一生
出版者
公益社団法人日本産業衛生学会
雑誌
産業医学 (ISSN:00471879)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.24, no.1, pp.13-23, 1982-01-20
被引用文献数
1

Cadmium has been thought to be carcinogenic for these ten years. The present author reviewed 98 papers on its carcinogenicity. Ten papers describing epidemiological studies on cadmium workers, re-evaluated by the present author, do not derive a solid conclusion that cadmium is carcinogenic. However, there still exists a certain probability that cadmium is a weak carcinogenic substance in the human, because of some data on chromosomal aberrations in cadmium workers, tumorigenesis at the site of cadmium injection in animals, and Leydig cell tumor formation in animals given subcutaneous injections of cadmium.