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FILE NAME: Smoking (SMOK) DATE: 1972 Oct 5 DOC#: SMOK061 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - Wider Link to Cancer Found in Asbestos Workers men<t)f^snrillar BOYCEHENSBERGEERS/SK back:ggrroouunndd--nnot-exposed t o^ A team of cancer researchers borne asbestos fibers.reported yesterday that rashes i t At -that '."time" there ewas toe, already'.implicated -a suggestion that other-types W cause of lung cancer In--work' cancertm ight -also be _morp ers repeatedly -exposed to the common, b u t -mot until ; -now; material,".j-might 'a l s o l i v e the -scientists ;said, -was "th e n 1caused a thre-fold Increase in- sufficient statistical evidence to the incidence of cancer of the confirm the suspiclbmtftL^si^ stomach, colon and rectum..in 'However,r now-c-that umore the same -workers,-^/*,^.^ time has- elapsed since th e Tnl} The finding, which the scien tial -exposure-to asbestos, tha tists said confirmed a long-held researchers found that41 work-", ^suspicion, raises the'possibility ers had died jof cancer of the th at the low levels of air- stomach, >/colon /or xectunf^! Jboroe asbestos particles known about three times the number, .to exist in urban air may in that would have.been expected] crease the risk of cancer among under normal circumstances. j-y; ..the.public a t larger,-s^sr;^-r / Among th e same ;number/of ' The researchers also sald that m enucV similar age.group not unusually.exposed to -asbestos, Their -findings might .lead~to a only 22J5 shoidd-Thaveodiedwf 'b etter understanding of gastro- the same cuases.ci^tf/^ ii/c jjfeg jntestm al cancer,'the causes of "Earlier' studies have ah own which are not know n.'iV ""/ that in the process of applying The 'rep o rt *w as /given 'in asbestos -insulation .during ;the' :Lyon, France, "before the Inter construction -of .-buildings -and national Agency for Research ships, countless tiny particles, i on Cancer, an arm - of the of the material "become dis-' l World Health Organization, by lodged and float - into th e akv i D r. Irving J. Seiikoff of the In urban areas it-'.has been T ( Mount Sinai -School of Medi- shown that another-iignifjeant j cine and Dr. E. Cuyler Ham- source of airborne asbestos'as j mond and Herbert Seidman of the wearing away of asbestos t the American Cancer Sodetjfs brake linings'in automobiles' fEnvironmental Cancer Re- and tnicks. The act of applying baearch Project the brakes' in ' such vehicles' r The findings are based-.on rubs, off a fine asbestos;dust ua- .study -of 632 members jof that is then kicked in to /th e t the New York and New Oersey air by the drafts of mo ro g *Tranches -of *'th e -insulation traffic.;?-* A workers' union -w ho-w orked ^ Examination of th e innvs-nf with various forms of asbestos, persons and. animals^axposed a widely,used fireproofingma- . terisl .'- ` - K r . - r-.-i f From 1943, when th e to : began, until the end of 3971, -the researchers monitored The -health and causes-of death of the workers. Several years ago .Dr. Seiikoff and Dr. Hammond -calculated th a t - insulation workers -were-dying.`-of. lung / such airTias show ^thotthe particles often lodge la th e ids/ sue and, apparently, V emain embedded for long periods o f time. --' . .A -'.**-1 f ,'East' week ,T>r.',-fSelikoif reported on a study asbestos exposure among World W ar i l shipbuilders. He warnedjthal cancer about eight "time* Jas 'such persons should .be aware :pf their increased risk of cap- rer and should get more fre; juent/-check-ups .-so that the disease can be diagnosed when t.isxnpre-treatable.;;;-.-ar^..L Nore Jv. V. 'T itles O c m f l