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PLAINTIFFS EXHIBIT
I ACS-89
AS <,`*'*/* * }9ia TUli WASHINGTON puSTl
Cancer Source
By Thomas OTcolc
W<<MI<<L4A F*I[ 3(4(1 ,,r. t
One out of live asbestos in . The Ns-w York (Uiw %,,ui
suliUon workers in nvctropoliHold the Subcommittee.
Un New York now dies of is holdm; hearings
p,,..,
lung cancer, an eminent ph>i-'<tcnt J.dinson'.. protw.ved <*
cian told Congress yesterday. .cupationat Safety j,,d n.-.iiUi
"If these figures are pro `''cl- tl,Jl nobodv has taken
lectcd to the country as a:`?nP* '` CUr\, th,c sim'3a ,,f J cancer in asbestos uoiket'.
whole, and tf fto improvement despite the nmuntm- cvnU-nT
in the health hazards thesethat the disease << un 3 rapid'
men face is achieved." said!nsc-
Dr. Irvine i.Sclikoff. "we mae: "Sli`,kh'rs for statistical
...
.. .
'^niceties '`isistcil tlicv were un-
look forward to perhaps COW conv;ncc-u. - ho sm.l. -a, t
deaths of lung cancer and pci- wanted even better m-.iata"
haps 15.000 deaths of cancer :n` For the pa>t s.\ >omf. Ur.
general in this single asbestos Selikoff >atd. he h.i- conttwt-
trade alone."
:c<` 3"
Dr. Sclikoff is professor of as1bcst0' ,nu`a"0ft.
Community Medicine at " 4re "uLmbcrs, York's Mt. Sinai liospita! and l?**1"1 ; president-elect of the presti- 5 . ,hc Asbestos
,llc *pw* Workers
Cious New York Academy of
n'...
Sciences
r The 632 men haj been as-
Testifying before the House'*X-c ,W<i
Select Lalxsr Subcommittee 1>f'
*- Oh t:.c basis
Dr. Sclikoff asid these eti.,o: BOr,nsl l,(c exsvetamy
tics "come as no surprise" t. trrni,i' -1*3
ha,Vi *
asbestos industry observers. OM'Octcd .o die hy Uo.. llut
"In 1933." said Dr. Saliknff.
"id Dr. Se.:k..ff. 2j5
"Dr. Kenneth M. Lynch now mcn rilcd tonkins for me rra
Chancellor of the i*n,vcrt:v J`ftn
tW cxtra 50
of South Carnlina. dv*enbod`hc
*' hfC2mc '*dent
the case of huut cant er in a "inu
sc'vral types
man who also had asbesiusiv." "vrc. rcMnuble.
a combination he aaxl **as
nu^ht have expected
rare. But since then. Dr. Sch- i,s or *'*'*" Wraths due i.
koff said, "numerous similar ^ni* cancer, he went on. "hut
cases of this association were there were 43. And while we
recorded."
would have expected imiv or
ten cancers of the stomach <r
colon, there w-crr 23."
Dr. Sclikoff explained (hat
the "peop.e who work m *
dusty atmosphere noi only
breathe it m. they cat it. |j."
Since 1962. he said, "the fig
ures have been even worse.
"While vve would have ex
pected 30 n:?r. to have d:: d :r.
the past five years." Dr. Schk
off said, "there have been 113
deaths. While
would have
expected three to have died ot
cancer of the lunc or pleura.
28 have died of this disease
Of equal concern, Ur hcl'k-
off went on. is a relatively new
tumor related to asbestos ex
posure called mc'oiltcltoma.
which Is a cancer of the Itntnc
of the chest or penh-nrum.
This Is such a rare cancer.
Dr. Sclikoff said, that it i*
found to cause one out of.
every 10.000 deaths. But of the
113 deaths in the asbestos
worker troup in New Xork.
he said. 13 have Ixeu Iruni
tae-sothclioniJ. "This makes it one t.ut nf
every 10 deaths amnmr ashes tos workers." he said. "nteavl
of otto out of 10.000"