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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1964 Apr 30 DOC NMA005 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION The Evening Bulletin - Doctors Say Working With Asbestos May Cause Cancer After Many Years Pee. ate wed ype Gi ae se an - ars ty + . ae if me Y ' race . roe , . r?. ee coat she eof . oy Mae ; a . . ree tay ony peat The Eve Bulletinu Phola April 30 1964 Doctors Say Working May Cause Cancer After Many Years '. d ' Ma ses re Can- oo American staflets -- ---- -- --ys--eed It was hin Can- a portfore portfore than . 420,000 and mbku smor kea rs last ey December that produced a ma- oe joringlament of cigaret smok- - a New Health Research Institute of inglas health hazard , 4 by By KARL ABRAHAM that was presented Dr. I. J. Seli Fairleigh Dickinson University Microscopie Fibers York physician had reported creating Ashis mineral a classi Of The Bulletin Staff koff to meeting of the Ameri recently of fines have different by | Asheslos one of industry's can Industrial Hygiene Associa- cancers in hamsters inject chemical compositions but share most important and widely tion in the Sheraton Hotel ing asbestos into the lining the property of being made by used raw materials was placed Dr. Selikoff's medical re jaround their lungs the nature in form of tightly |, under additional suspicion here search team has studied all of the men who have become mem He said that the hazard of malignant diseases of the lungs packed bers Pulverized AS- be of micros- yesterday as a possible cause of bers of the New York New- of asbestos workers engaged in bestos fibres can . . pas . reported cancer of the evidence ark N. J. locals of the Interna- specific industrial operations and asbestos Sci of Here is some tional Union of Heat and Frost such as mining the lung cancer victims studied i . - Insulators and Asbestos Work processing had been , reported 30 New York all had been ex- ers AFL since Dec. 31. years ago York area building posed to asbestos at least 22 ; 1942. They are building trades The New was years This he said indicated } workers trades workers however that if their cancers were relat- Dr. Research Report a group with relatively little then it was a asbestos exposure said ed the asbestos At the end of a year per- Sclikoff ; very slowly deelopindgisease the Int The exposure of these work ind as of Dec. 31 1962 report- the researchers So formidable were ers Inbuilding trades he said ed Dr. Selikoff plications of this study said Dr. would proater than that of ! noted the following of Selikoff that of the build- the general population but how - -They selected records ings trades . workers in the it would be 632 men who had been exposed United States and workers in much greater |: considera- to asbestos for 20 years On the selected other industries should hblayrdmotroe tewsictuhrcohut | basis of general population be subjected to the widest pos researcher mortality statistics 203 should sible study so that this and He note that Africa had |: in have died However the actual other materials under sus working South the death rate in the group was 255 spiocmieon could be prov^'n or laid s grotupupd eoi plleeund tghsereofanad floarugned : The difference was almost en to rest to contain ashestos 3,000 percnitn tirely attributable to death from Products 25 small amounts | particle cancer He said \ In this group should the estimated there ee been according to general were about three million build- have hetween six and seven ing trades workers in the nation averagebsecause of cancer in the In addition he said there are deaths llungs or the pleur^a sac sur about 3,000 asbestos products the lungs Actually from pipe insulation to auto rounding there were 45 such cancer vic- brake linings to floor tile with tims They would have expect an undetermined number of jed less than ten cancers otfhetrhee worIkedrosubt that moder, n indus- colon and were 29 rectum but ie try could survive without asbes- | has -Bronchingenie carcinoma tos World production ( responsible for almost one grown from 30,000 tons in 1900 was out of every five deaths an in- more than three million tons seven times that ex in 1960 said Dr. Selikoff cidence in the general popula Working with Dr. Selikoff are pected . wt Dr. Jacob Churg and Dr. Chy - , : |tion Hamsters in Hamsters ler Hammond all of Mt. Sinai Cancers in New York Dr. Dr. Sclikoff Sclikoff pointed out that Hospital Ilam ond also is director of Dr. William E. Smith of Ilammond PRODUCED - JM 83