Study Finds High Cancer Rates at IBM
Posted on: Thursday, 19 October 2006, 15:00 CDT
A Boston study has said cancer rates among International Business Machines Corp. employees is significantly greater than the national average.
The study, which IBM had previously sought to suppress, said 7,697 male employees who had worked for IBM for five years died from cancer between 1969 and 2001, compared to the 7,206 expected using the national average, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The female cancer death total, 1,667, was also greater than the total predicted by the national average, 1,454.
Richard Clapp, a Boston University professor of environmental health, analyzed the data after being given access to it while serving as an expert witness for California lawyers suing IBM on behalf of workers at a San Jose, Calif., disk drive plant who fell ill with cancer.
Publication of the study was blocked in 2004 when IBM objected to the use of corporate data that had been released only for use in the court case. Clapp said the company ceased trying to prevent publication earlier this year.
The company has called the study junk science that mischaracterizes the data.
Source: United Press International
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