carcinogenic trees ??

[rossj]

Just found out what carcinogenic means ( causes cancer ) can anyone tell me of any that when cut can be carsinogenic please ? Ive heard that laburnham is and also fine sawdust from pine trees ! Is this true ??

[tommer9]

The fine dust from most trees is carcinogenic.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Cell proliferation. Latterly, DNA predisposed to the same i.e. genetic vulnerability to cell prolifieraion. Fine dusts indeed... but the fine dust from a fertiliser factory is a tad more carconingenic than wood chip!

[djbobbins]

But just to show that nature is a thing of many wonders, taxol (as extracted from yew trees) is used as a chemotherapy drug.

 

Other common sources of carcinogen that might not immediately spring to mind are soot or used engine oil, and burned toast.

[treequip]

To get wood to be truly carcinogenic you need to make it into MDF first

[jltree]

london plane, these take in the the fumes from cars . Thats why you find them alot in inner cities. The dust off these is real bad for you...

 

any work is welcome work

[Pat Ferrett]

tobacco tree's should be given a wide berth! I heard some bad things about them making peoples fingers yellow and everything

[White Noise]

The fine dust from most trees is carcinogenic.

 

Sad but true . You should also take care when handling fuel and oil as this is bad to . Not forgetting the odd fire and dont mention the saw fumes .

Edited February 1, 2011 by White Noise

[Hodge]

Nasopharyngeal cancer due to exposure to wood dust

 

Download the PDF if you want more information. my Mrs is a micro biologist and found this. there is a suggested risk, however there are other factors which may also contribute to it.

[Dilz]

most hoard wood dust is carcionwhatever, so is eating to much carrots, so is sitting on your arse, could be worse you could be a welder - they huff loads of nice fumes every day. If you are worried wear a dust mask - the stress from worry will more likely give you cancer, or the fact that most of the water and food we drink is chock a block filled wit chemicals, or we nuke our food, or that cell phone, i reckon wood dust is the least of your worries - though dont get me wrong you can get a touch of farmers lung from it, especialy chipping dead elms....chough splutter etc...