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MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE / Tbt City Uniptrrity ofNm York PIPTH AVIMUI AND IOOTH (TtllT'NtV YORK. N.Y. <! 0ifnM if Gw--ttjMiiicm July S3, 1S70 Sr. Merle tadj Medical DirActor, Industrial Medicine Doitod Itttu Stool Corporation S2S Vllllaa Poos Avoaue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1S230 Soar Horlo: I've boon cnrloua about tbo increased Inf eancor nortallty neof pour coko eon vorknen, ao daBoastrated bp Lloyd. The question of .benzpyrene baa, la our opinion, boon inadequately oatabllsbod, oapocially in vie* of our falluro to find, at loaat 00 far, an iacroaaod Inf caaeor rato aaoaf our roofinf workers exposed to ratbor high eooeoatratloaa of basrpyroao in tbo air about tbolr work. I have a poaalblo al tomato explanation oblcb could bo lookod at. la foaoral, eokinf ovens aro aaaoelatod with a food deal of laaulatlea. lnaulatlan aaboatoa. Vary often, too, tbo an on tbo job either do their own ropaira or aro in tbo vicinity of repair vork if done bp other tradoa. foaetlnee' Ibo clean-up la leaa than aetlculoua vltb nucb aaboatoa allowed to raaiala aa waato. A bypotboala equally tenable, then, lahtAo that tbo iacroaaod Inf cancer la duo to aaboatoa inhalation^* Of courae, all of thla daponda upon tbo actual ineulatloa eoodltloaa, of which Z know very little, that aro tbo facta? With warn rofarda. fincorolp poura Zrviaf J4 Solikoff, M.B. Profoaaor USEI000115