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02-06-2004, 7:28 AM
Chemicals at a former IBM Corp. hard disk drive plant were not the cause of cancers in two workers there, a leading epidemiologist testified in an ongoing civil suit here.
The analysis of medical experts linking workplace chemicals to cancer was flawed, said Patricia Buffler, a professor of epidemiology and former dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley.
Buffler was testifying on behalf of IBM in a case in which two former workers allege IBM exposed them to toxic chemicals which caused poisonings that led to breast cancer and non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL). A former visiting chief scientist for the International Agency on Cancer Research, Buffler claimed she had reviewed more than 800 articles in preparation for the case.
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The analysis of medical experts linking workplace chemicals to cancer was flawed, said Patricia Buffler, a professor of epidemiology and former dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley.
Buffler was testifying on behalf of IBM in a case in which two former workers allege IBM exposed them to toxic chemicals which caused poisonings that led to breast cancer and non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL). A former visiting chief scientist for the International Agency on Cancer Research, Buffler claimed she had reviewed more than 800 articles in preparation for the case.
Read more (http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20040205S0008)