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FILE NAME Kent KNT DATE 1972 Oct 5 DOC KNT106 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newspaper Article - Wider Link to Cancer Found in Asbestos Workers A A By BOYCE background as exposed RENSBERGET 3 . A team of cancer researchers borne asbestos fibers was reported yesterday that asbes AtAt that time therewas tos already implicated as suggestion that types pf, cause of be ; cancer might also more . lung cancer in work ers to > the common butnot untilther now there material might > also have thescientistsstaical saidwwas as > caused a thre increase in sufficient statistical to evidence the incidence of cancer of the confirm the suspicion rectum in that stomach colon and Howevernow more workersthe time has elapsed since the dini- , the same sciential | The finding which the sciential exposurtoe asbestos the sciential f tists said confirmed a long researchers found that works F suspicion raises the possibility had died cancer of the stomach that the low levels of air colon or rectum r borne asbestos particles known about three times the number to exist in urban air may in that would have been expected expected under circumstances crease the risk of cancer among thepublic at large sate normal P The researchers alsosaid that their findings might lead to Fbetter understanding of gastro- Intestinal cancer causes of which are not known given Lyon The report was - in before Lyon France the Inter national Agency for Research on Cancer an armResarch of Dr. the * World Health Organization ( Irving J. Selikoff of ( Mount Sinai School of Medi cine and Dr. E. Cuyler Ham mond and Herbert Seidman of 12.5 the exposed the same cuases sal 4c eet the process of applying unusually asbestos insulation duringand construction of:buildings ships countless tiny particles of the material become dis In urban areasintohas been skown that significant source of airborne asbestoiss Cancer Re- automobiles the American Cancer Society's : Environmental and trucks The act of ._ search Project ; the brakes in such vehicles based The findings are on rubs off a fine asbestos dust 5 -. studyof 632 membersof that is then kicked intothe the drafts of moving : New York and New Jersey air by the branches the insulation Examination of the workers union worked 2 lumest a pf} with various forms of asbestos 1943wfihreeprnoofing ma particleshas periods to in the such of widelyused shown ' terials teritalserials usedwe Sa 3 fireproofing } often lodge | From remain sue began until the end of 1971 and apparently for embedded the researchers monitored the long Whealth and causes death time vs of aM, wt! 6 ses the workers Several years ago - Dr. Selikoff and Dr. Hammond calculated that that insulation exposure among WorldWar warned workers were dyingof lung shipbuilders He that cancer about eight times as such persons should be aware can more pf their increased risk of and should get more fre quentcheck so that the when can be diagnosed treatable(py. N.Y. TIMES October 5 1972