A medical gas used in thousands of hospitals across the US may be causing cancers, reports suggest.Ethylene oxide (EtO) is a colorless, odorless gas routinely used to clean hospital equipment including ventilators, surgical kits, catheters, and gowns.But studies suggest that when it is routinely breathed in, the chemicalcan cause damaging mutations in cells and raise the risk of cancer, including of the blood, stomach and breasts.
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