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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1968 Mar 28 DOC#: NMA031 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - Applying Brakes Might Also Be Releasing Cancer Agent f'l SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. NEWS-PRESS D. 35,000 S. 36,500 MAR 28 1888 ! easing Cancer A SAN DIEGO - Every shown asbestos in the lungs of time you hit your brakes, you up to 50 per cent of cross sec may be polluting the air with tions of the population," Dr. I a substance suspected of causing cancer, a pathologist says. Anderson said in a report giv en to a symposium for science The substance is asbestos, w r i t e r s sponsored by the widely used in brake lining. American Cancer Society. It also is found in roofing, " An increased incidence of insulation and many other in lung cancer among asbestos dustrial materials. workers has been noted for Dr. W. A. D. Anderson of years," he said. "The magni the University of Miami School tude of asbestos exposure in of Medicine has found tiny as general urban populations has bestos fibers in the lungs of only been recently document 31 per cent of the men and ed." 20 per cent of the women in , a group of 500 persons studied . - at random in Miami. " Surveys in other cities have Dr. Anderson said lung cn- cer, which he called " the ma jor cancer problem in this country," may be caused by many substances. In addition to asbestos, he cited cigaret smoke and automobile ex haust. " The evidence that cigaret smoke contains a lung cancerproducing factor is overwhelm ing," he said, "but success so far in changing this exposure factor in the general popula tion cmnot be described asoverwhelming or even good."