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FILE NAME: CertainTeed (CERT) DATE: 1964 Apr30 DOC#: CERT001 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: NewspaperArticle with Cover Letterfrom CertainTeed Certain-teed Products Corporation P O OOX I 13 AMDLRH PRNNQYLVAN IA Prvate & Confidential Mr. Clifford Shccklcr Johns-Manville Corporation 22 E. AOth Street New York 16, New York Dear Cliff: . I ara enclosing this review of Dr. Selikoff's paper on the assumption that you have not seen it. You can imagine the re action to this article at our local plant. Sincerely, CERTAIN-TEED PRODUCTS CORP. LDU:ap Enc. Leon D. Horowitz Supervisor of Safety I : PRODUCED J |CMem3n.CERT000002 I'.' *:'Tic+,J/T '1`'. p , . r t f <?,-. A /W .V CM,.). - A ,! t y r : Doctors Say Working With Asbestos May Cause Cancer After Many Years F w i's statistic i>;American Can- cci.Fhcii'T'j i,"'i It was his t<>\ port- than 420,(00 sm6Uur.i V i J ii.pn-smnkcrs last De^.-eii-r'that produced n mn- jor'lruiieL.i.imr.of cigaret smoJt- By KARL ABRAHAM 0 / Tfio Bulletin Staff Asbestos, one of industry's most important and widely used raw materials, was placed under additional suspicion here, yesterday as a possible cause of cancer. ' - Here is some of the evidence -J ) that was presented by a New Health Research Institute of ng as'?. 'i.'C'.ard.' York physician, Dr. I. J. Seli- I-'nirlcigh Dickinson University MicrOM'.i'ine fibers koff, to a moduli' of the Ameri recently had reported creating As!)C-;y):l U-a mineral, a class can Industrial Hygiene Associa cancers in hamsters- by inject of fu-.ees ' lluuj'navc different tion in the Sheraton Hotel. ing asbestos into the lining rhcVriiral compositions hulsharc Dr. Sclikoff's medical re around their lungs. tho property of hemp made by search team has studied all of He said that the hazard of nature i n ` tho form of tightly the men who have become mem malignant diseases of ihe lungs packed ' liberty b Pulverized as- bers of the New York City-New- of asbestos workers engaged in hcsios fit" or, can be of micros ark, N. J. locals of the Interna specific industrial operations copic sire. *; '*Di. T.-.-.Ur-rr-ropnrtrd.that of tional Union of Heat and Frost such as mining and asbestos processing had been reported 30 the Itihg cancer victims studied Insulators and Asbestos Work ers, AFL-CIO, since Dec. 31, years ago. in'.Nrw York, all had been ex f 1942. They are building trades traTdhees Nweo\rykYerosr,khaorweaevberu,ildwinags pveoasr'ds 'Thiase,o'h-'estossaida,t ilnedaisc!ate2d2 workers. "a group with relaiivcly little tb it if tiit-ir c h e e r s were rclat- Research Report asbestos exposure," said Dr. ed'tn the asbestos, then it was a At the end of a 20-vcar per Sclikoff. very'slowly deyclopmg disease. iod, as of Dee. 31, 19G2, report So formidable were the Im fliie i.-M-osiira of these work ed Dr. Sclikoff, the researchers plications of this study, said Dr. er? In`building trades, he said, noted the following: Sclikoff, that-nil of-the- build wiiii!<,.:.i-rr ' 'l i ' r than that of --They .selected records of ings trades workers in the the mino.al pr pul.ition. bm how fi32 men who lnd been exposed United States and workers in much ;r'.vucr it was~vrm!d be to asbestos for 20 years. On the selected other industries should hard to :i.-.y without considera basis of general population he subjected to the widest pos ble- rriorf i'/.c.'rch. mortality statistics, 203 should sible study, so that this and w'oHr el- idnigf--innotcSgtihkaht a researcher Africa liad have died. However, the actual some other materials under sus death rate in the group was 253. picion could be proven or laid Istudied t' e bines of a group nlpeonk ilterr and large found The difference was almost en to rest. tirely attributable to death from 25 peront to jrmitnin asbestos cancer. ^OOOProducts particle-, id small amounts. -- In this group there should Ho said` "hhee'estimated there.. have been, according to general were about three million build averages, between six and seven ing trades workers in the nation. deaths because of cancer in the In addition, he said, there are lungs or the pleura, a sac sur about 3,000 asbestos products, rounding the lungs. Actually, from pipe 'insulation to auto there were 45 such cancer vic brake linings to floor tile, with tims. They would have expect an undetermined number of ed less than ten cancers of the workers. colon and rectum, but there "1 doubt that modern indus were 29. ' try could survive without asbes -- Bronchiogcnic carcinoma tos World production has was responsible for almost one grown from 30.000 tons in 1900 out of every five deaths, an in to more than three million tons rideure seven limes that ex in HKiO," said Dr. Sclikoff. jpeeled In the general popula ,tion. A Working with Dr. Jacob Churg Dr. and SDcrl.iUV.o. fCfaitrye- ;Cancers in Hamsters lrr Hammond, all of Ml. Sinai Dr. Sclikoff poiinnltCetdt oOuUtl tllhlalltl iHmoaspi 'iitwaul in N ew York.' Drf Dr. William E. Smith of thejllammond also is director ot PRODUCED j M as.l$n.CERT000003