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- 60^6? x. rrH /ff ^ /'^~~7iy />?cy / 'l r-r+s /f // Crrr rr*j / rtf/ // d ? /c ifX.Tt, ^ c, "------------------- W /r* 14 J *w CL <. Cv 7 '/?o />r/ /r^e (J t <Si ' JT2- ?e>/V^ vf5 0 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"