Progress of Study on the Relationship between Indoor Air Formaldehyde Pollution and Leukemia / 环境与健康杂志

ABSTRACT

Leukemia is one of the common tumors,and it seriously harms to the health.The more serious environmental pollutions become,the more people pay attention to the relationship between environmental exposures and leukemia,especially children leukemia.To discuss the progress of study on formaldehyde and leukemia,this study states the characteristics of formaldehyde,the resources of formaldehyde indoor air and the harms to health,toxicity and human cancinogenicity,and reviews the researches on the relationship between formaldehyde and leukemia.It concludes that there is "strong but not sufficient evidence for a causal association between leukemia and occupational exposure to formaldehyde".