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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), as well as the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have determined that benzene is a carcinogen (cancer-causing). Long-term exposure to high levels of benzene in the air can cause leukemia, particularly Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML).
