Health Consultation: Follow-Up Review of Bladder Cancer, Raymark Industries (a/k/a Raymark Industries, Incorporated), Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut. EPA Facility ID: CTD001186618, October 27, 2011

摘要

This Health Consultation was prepared by the Connecticut Department of Public Health (CTDPH) to satisfy recommendations contained in its 2001 Health Consultation entitled Review of Bladder Cancer Data for Stratford, CT. In the 2001 report, it was recommended that when at least five more years of bladder cancer data become available, male and female bladder cancer should be reviewed to evaluate whether the apparent increasing trend in male bladder cancer in Stratford persisted over time. The recommendation also stated that bladder cancer data trends over time in towns around Stratford be evaluated. Bladder cancer has been the focus of several health studies in Stratford because a CTDPH cancer review in the early 1990s indicated elevated bladder cancer rates in Stratford, as compared with the state of Connecticut. Solvent exposure is one risk factor for bladder cancer and solvents were used and disposed at the Raymark Industries Facility.