Pediatric Hepatic Angiosarcoma (PHAS) and Vinyl Chloride-A Ghost of the Past May Loom over East Palestine, OH, and beyond: A Critical Commentary

Diagnostics (Basel). 2023 Apr 14;13(8):1412. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics13081412.

Abstract

Road accidents are not infrequent everywhere in the world, but when they involve poisonous and dangerous chemical compounds, they represent a hazard and an issue for public health. In this commentary, we briefly review a recent East Palestine event and one of the chemicals primarily involved with a predisposition to initiate a carcinogenetic process. The author reviewed, as a consultant, numerous chemical compounds for the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a trusted agency of the World Health Organization. Something is looming over the territories of East Palestine, Ohio, United States, draining water from the soil. We speculate that there is a dark and opprobrious fate for this area of the United States due to the potential increase in cases of pediatric hepatic angiosarcoma, which will also be revised in this commentary.

Keywords: angiosarcoma; environment; liver; tumor; vinyl chloride.