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FILE NAME: CertainTeed (CERT) DATE: 1968 Mar28 DOC#: CERT035 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article
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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 28. 1968
Asbestos Blamed for Increase in Ovary Cancer
DBy. . Gr pEOn Ro Gr Er Gr pE-Tr Zi En
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And delegates attending anjby pointing out it now ranks is not yet proved.
Special to The Inquirer American Cancer Society semi- third in cancer deaths among Dr. W. A. D. Anderson- of
And Los Angeles Times nar he-e were told Wednesday.women.
the University of Miami, who
SAN D IEGO March 27.--As that asbestos gets into the airl Even more remarkable, he said an increased incidence of
bestos, a common material in *r m:
.
[added, is the fact that it has jlung cancer among asbestos
modern industry, has been dicted as a possible culprit
in Cars brake linings, in ditioning systems in
air con- quadrupled in the United States .workers which it and Western Europe since 1900.
was
noticed
years
ago,
the dramatic increase of ovar jis used for filtering, insulating!
"A
century
ago
it
was
rcla-
reported that as jhave been found
bestos in the
fibers lungs
ian cancer years.
during
the
last
100 materia. used for heating ducts tively rare. Now and wiring, plastic floor tile and and increasing,"
it is Dr.
cGormahmaomn of
31
percent
of
men
and
20
! Suspected since 1963 of being many other common uses.
said.
percent of the women in a
[involved in the rise of lung cancer, its implication in can
It is ubiquitous in our en-j
The
increase
among
western
study cities,
done in be said,
Miami. In other the percentages
cer
of
the
ovaries,
vironment," said Dr. John B. [women, when however, Graham of the Roswell Park the fact that
considered with are even higher. ovarian cancer
is relatively new.
Memorial
Institute,
State
Uni-'still
is
rare
in
Latin
America
He cers
thinks it may affect can other than lung cancers,
Doctors with both
associating ovarian and
asbestos versity of New York at Buffalo, lung canI And it is virtually indestructi-
ai of
d Asia, it must
suggests some be peculiar to
cause mod-
such
as
ovarian
cancer,
be
cer noted that use ol the ma.kl-" . terial has increased a thousand
jern western life, he added.
cause it is absorbed into the digestive and circulatory sys
times
since
the
turn of
the
| During a speech, Dr. Graham,I He pointed cen.noted the serious and growing at asbestos,
the accusing finger tems as although he said organs.
well
as
by
respiratory
tury. '
Iproblem of cancer of the ovary,the case against this substance According to Dr. Graham,
although asbestos particles have not actually been found in ovar ian tumors, they have been found in the surrounding tissues.
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