Exposure to Organic Solvents Causes Neurologic Diseases

Organic solvents have long been recognized as being toxic to multiple organ systems. It is commonly known that exposure to organic solvents causes hematologic diseases, including hematologic cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma. A large body of literature has developed which shows that exposure to organic solvents causes kidney disease, especially chronic glomerulonephritis. A number of recent epidemiologic studies also show that organic solvent exposure causes hard tumors at various organ sites, including renal (kidney) cancer and liver cancer. It has also long been recognized that overexposure to organic solvents causes a toxic neuropathy.