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FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1968 Jan 11 DOC OC310 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newspaper Articles with Cover Memo - Fatal Cancer Showing Up Among Those Handling Asbestos Castleman File Corning Fiberglas w = with cover letter or memo If DATE = 0 undated ROM Document # OCF 310 DATE 1973 Va article in newspaper medical journal ___ trade journal newspaper published presentation from conference published government report government inspection results unpublished internal report unpublished presentation from conference memo letter warning label sales literature medical records meeting agenda minutes legal filing of defense legal filing of plaintiff legal deposition of other attendee list AMSTERDAM NEW YORK 12010 518-843-3900 January 11 1968 Mr. Fred Kiel Owens Corning Fiberglas 717 Fifth Avenue New York N.Y. 10022 Corp. Dear Fred Enclosed please find the article discussed during my visit of 4 January Many thanks for the opportunity to visit with you Best Wishes Very truly yours POLYPLY INC RBK Enc Roger B. Knowles President 01 027 0379 361 = gy e ne a ey RareFatal Cancer ShowinUgp Among Those Handling Handling Asbestos By Thomas OToole in the United States morelloma morelloma Even today doctors Washington Poet Biaff Wzitet than half of whom did not have trouble spotting it A fatal cancer of the begin working with asbestos whether they're trying to cropping up among the tion's asbestos workers Na So rare that 20 years ago It In terms of the number of persons Involved the apparent asbestos peril may be even diagnose it in a See ASBESTOS person still AS Col. 1 wasn't even in the medical greater than that posed by textbooks the cancer is called'uranium called'uranium mines Last May mesothelioma and seems Labor Secretary W. Willard most peculiar to people Wirtz established the first posed to asbestos Federal radiation Umits for stricken But oddly those underground uranium mines with the deadly disease in following disclosure that an clude a nurse whose estimated 115 men had died worked in an asbestos plant lung cancer in a mining and a man who handled population naver higher than bestos for po more than 5600 . first spot- month while he insulated the Mesothelioma was plumbing in his own house lighted in 1960 when a South Any attention the disease African doctor found 82 cases gets might come none too soon More than 1 million among the people living and working in the Cape of Good tons of asbestos la consumed Hope asbestos fields The ally these days in the United same doctor turned up 57 States with more than 3000 more cases the next two years separate uses being reported for the fiber There are at =| Nobody knows how many least 100,000 asbestos workers Americans have had mesothe os 01 027 0380 71. M ) / . *. - gece a . a ah op ABBESTOS From Pap AIT AY ee ru @: FatalCancerShowing Up+ eeerr Br. *e ot te os - Among Among Asbestos + alive or pin it down -alwith sons who worked as the lungi where they form * Autopsy ons | asbestos Insul torsin a ship gummy deposlis This explains + Uyrer in last years Of to deaths jhat seemed and perhaps even ' tors have turned up 71 to base seemed lung cancer : of eaten deaths jhat the thm em appeared connection Oddny had no real exposure to that with so substance that builds up - Wilber But the other posures 60 two turned out to be around the asbestos fhea al odred Wilber almowl bizarre One was allodred in the lung can cause * worked with Und with people sabestos who did Swiss cheesemaker who work ~ ^anceerlsewhere in the body 4 , boiler Irved in deighborhoods wherore~edoar~redouanldmosat lahrigse entire cloifre But how does. 11 do 117 Nobody 1." 33 know & the air was heavily laden ered with asbestos 93 insulation Dibertas dust - Recause it is auch's new and .: that flake~ off at the inuch * The first Americen study little understood disease study Another was a worker in a ring _one_run_in _one_run_in 1904 _one_run_in by Dr. brewery where beer is ill mesothelioma is al~-ncreating some ring .. Bellkoff of tered through pulp filters verious . social and York's Mount Sinal Hospital essentially of cotton economic problems Tracing the lives of 132 New and arbrelos No stale lists the disease in fiber nobody York ares members of the The most convincing 14 convincing study workmen compensation Asbestos Workers Union who the most recent laws no nobody afflicted with con were on the union rolls before ducted by a team of doctors fit can be paid damages for his . suction Jan. 1 1943 Dr. Selikot texing out of Middlesex sen now the first that 255 of them had died General Hospital test New cases at the courts Jan. -1963 . Brunswick NJ a few miles where they may conceivably Some of what he found from the Nation's largest at am hot surprise him For example plant one that employs asbes- workers. 12 of the 255 died of - . employs operalen three years los disease pinal tems a known but de- in the past no stay for the next 5 to 10 years The fact that nobody know~ how much exposure to saber can bring on the ;. A worker Fece MuradSs J 2 'y ewes braider in a Canadian asbesi^nluculation easingly fatal due to fewer than 18 cases of meso has created controversy too places boller disease brought theisoms passed through Mid * Most laws ipulate that as fful of breathing to arbetes Star bestos to workers Only enrabout find out more the disease He's doing di relate in an earlier tir enrabout the timent Stoun with 13500 grant grant the dust Gegerair the 19 were not workers S Dr. W.-D. But Dr. Selikoff also found nearby asbestos Sinal's Selikoff naw 1500 Papermakers arbeston ShichiwodShichiwood Shichiwoodhealthproblem War plant that 45 of the men had died a woman who atvironment atvironment where there is no more than five million par cles of asbestos dust per one stantly monitoring is the from the arbeston the perigos : problem asbestos dust members monitoring apparently of lung cancer a rate inhaled dust in laun cubic foot of alr regulation regulation Ashestng plant very extensiI Dr. Borow Jersey futute may be Workers Linien higher than that in the nor.idering - ber - husband's work that many in thelabestos - in metropoli heister who the lived a spin celling true It mal adult male . populca lotthei s on recond a spin fought years to get wasn't easy the Indeed it may be Even more surprising heister who lived one - money Dr. Boruw went 4 0 many doctors think that idustry spilan iphis incal York the same Philadel block found five deaths due from the plant - mesothelioma thejbus But with mesothelioma thejbus marted a similar organisations before he cot takes 20 years of exposure + mesothelioma mesothelioma mesothelioma relatively DR Selikoff en launched new discase disease might be brought with is also one of by exposure to as bille Hahneman program including the American Can brains Hospital in cer Society and the Pubile cases of in bring on m the disease 111 111 a follow study of 307 con- most difficult to tenth as juncover more information Health Service 1990. 1990. say~-Dr Norwood la or diseases hundredth cutive deaths confront modern medicina.limit that Middlesex General's Dr. Some dnetary think of malicnamera throughout throughout among the numbers 1 and whole North medicina.limit It is almost impossible to Desp~te obstacles these Borow says that he is in the meinthelioma prahlem is just beginning to neur ... Borow obstacles decor that process beginning substantially throughout the whole Nortt reat h like these these Dr. Tescarch has becun of setting up a travel Since the ingease in lamell lamell travel beginning PatirAgain his verprise verprise he Borow that that in a hand-.ing exhibit to bring cow decor substantially terure woe ee ingease the most turned up 10 deaths due . potent anticancer time the that radiation treat mesothelioma See About the sime no drugs have effect_or It About Pennsylvania State Departments Departments do he says In remove meat of Health began a blind some of the fuld that builds study to find how mesothe up in the lungs from the dis- ^' lioma might be affecting the cate more than 5000 asbestos work- The disease is 100 per cent states en scattered about the sible fatal Dr. Borow and - The Department sent ques usually takes less than a year in tionnaires to 162 hospitals after diagnosis to run Me the southeastern part course of the : attacks site hospitals some asbestos workers and not disrothers refor all mesotheliomas nosed between 1958 and 1963 disrothers or why some victims of Back came 42 the disease get it after an ap documented parently mild exposure to as of castehe disease only 11 of bestos The University of Mich which could be traced 10jigan of asbestos exposure traced 10jigan School Stedicine cites jone case of a man who was ex Ten victims the disease posed to asbestos for about ; a turned out in be men who month while he Insulated his worked In asbestos plants Light were people who lived dheoaudseofSmixesyoetahreslliaotme~r he waS near asbestos plants most of their lives Three Even the nature of the were mem- disease is little understood hers of families who had one While it is known 1"more asbestas worker generally mem- that the discare ^llacks the bezsma year girl whose timing of the chest and sh^n^> asbestos nobody in father way an en men knows how it gineer a nurse whose father gets there had workedworked in years in and dust When asbesins dust in in trapped bestos plant and a woman haled the fibers get __ Holidays ALTERATIONS PROMPT clothing return clothing clothing clothing clothing clothing a on in ! -beforetron tron returnreturn to school school ee @ i @e * te eet 2S oer armenia ; e cao ii ASBESTOS ve ASBESTOS | ^' ASBESTOS a . 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