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It's actually not that black and white. Wood dust is linked to a statistically significant increase in the occurrence of a very rare nasal cancer. But the thing
by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
It's actually not that black and white. Wood dust is linked to a statistically significant increase in the occurrence of a very rare nasal cancer. But the thing is, in woodworkers and in the general population alike, it's still a very rare cancer. You're orders of magnitude more likely to die of other cancers, whether you work with wood or not. This should be way, way down your list of risks.
There is a simpler reason to avoid wood dust: it causes allergies, asthma, and other non-cancer respiratory issues in a fair number of people.
- DannyBee 3y agoYes. IPF and friends are more of a death sentence than nasal cancer. Nasal cancer at least has a meaningful treatment outside of "double lung transplant" (which itself only has like 50-60% 5 year survival rate, and is essentially unavailable to most people with IPF due to age). I'm aware of the stage 3 pipeline for IPF. I would still rather have cancer in most cases.
- gymbeaux 3y agoIPF = Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- fomine3 3y agoI don't know why people so much care about cancer than other illness/injury. Why is a dedicated cancer insurance a thing? Is there any historical reason?
- OJFord 3y agoNever heard of it before, but I would guess almost certainly due to exclusions in non-specific policies.