title: Chemical Warfare Agents: Toxicology and Treatment
author: Timothy T. Marrs
description: "What more appropriate time for a title of this scope than in the post 9/11 era?...a timely, scholarly, and well-written volume which offers much information of immense current and?future benefit." (<i>Veterinary and Human Toxicology</i>, Vol. 44, No. 6, December 2002)
zlib_text: MUSTARD GAS
  CAS No. 505-60-2
  First Listed in the First Annual Report on Carcinogens
  CH2 
  S 
  CH2 
  Cl 
  CH2 
  CH2 
  Cl 
  CARCINOGENICITY 
  Mustard gas is known to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient evidence of 
  carcinogenicity in humans (IARC 1975, 1982, 1987). Several studies have shown an increased 
  mortality from respiratory tract cancer among individuals exposed to mustard gas. This mortality 
  was greater in those individuals with long-term occupational exposure than in those with
  sporadic exposure. 
  An IARC Working Group reported that there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity of 
  mustard gas in experimental animals (IARC 1975, 1982, 1987). 
  When administered by
  inhalation or intravenous injection, mustard gas caused increased incidences of lung tumors in 
  mice of both sexes. Subcutaneous administration of mustard gas induced local fibrosarcomas or 
  sarcomas in mice of both sexes. 
  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELEVANT TO CARCINOGENESIS OR POSSIBLE 
  MECHANISMS OF CARCINOGENESIS 
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