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1 . 1960 when -- I call him Dr. Wagner and you call him
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2 Dr. Wagner, there were a number of case reports in the
3 medical and scientific literature about the
4 association or about the development of mesothelioma
5 in individuals who had asbestos exposure, wasn't
6 there?
7 A Not clearly, no. There were cases reported
8 in which there was asbestosis associated with pleural
9 and pulmonary tumors.
10 The first one, Wedler, in German, doesn't
11 say mesothelioma, but whether it was a lung cancer of
12 the pleura or whether it was a mesothelioma, it is
13 subject to question.
14 If you read all of the textbooks, they date
15 the relationship between mesothelioma and asbestos to
16 Wagner in 1960, and that is what the standard
17 textbooks all say today.
18 Q Now, let's talk a little bit about lung
19 cancer.
20 You would agree with me that it was well-
21 established in the medical and scientific literature