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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1959 Apr 7 DOC#: NMA135 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: LA Times - Cancer Seminar Article 3 -- No Title Los Angeles Times (1886-Current h ie ) Apr 7, 1959, ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1985) PS 23 iCANOEft SEMINAR * as those involving exposures even affect miners of urani- cer.- The studytwas reported by Dr. Lester Breslow, chief of the chronic disease bureau of the California Department of Public Health. "I agree - t h a t cigarette smoking seems to be the major cause of the large in- creaseih lung cancer cases," Dr. Breslow said. "But at least a substantial minority, it appears, mustbe accounted for by occupation. "Indeed, the whole sub ject of industrial exposure and cancer needs urgent at tention." Dr. B r e s l o w examined records of more than 500 lung-cancer patients in 13 California hospitals starting in 1950, and found a higherthan-expected lung-cancer incidence among welders, steamfitters, b o i l e r m a k ers and other w o r k e r s exposed to asbestos, bridgecrane operators in metal fab- mental regulations w h i c h might emerge f r o m more general knowledge of such problems, he said. Trade unions have some- times stressed extra, pay for hazardous occupation, such Also, ultra-violet radiation, including sunshine, causing cancer after excessive ex- posture, and radiation from X rays 'o r radioactive materials affecting the skin or the bone marrow. This may said, new chemical processes are being developed almost faster than they can be cat- alogued, to say nothing of their- being adequately investigated for possible dangers'to workers, Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission