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1 because of the case reports?
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2 A It doesn't matter how many. I can give you
3 this short story.
4 In 1991 two German authors, Woiderwitz and
5 Rodelsperger, the authors we have looked at, published
6 in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine saying
7 they have seen 40 cases of mesothelioma in garage
8 mechanics. And they published that as a short article
9 in the journal.
10 I read that article and I said wait a
11 minute, we already have studies on the subject, why do
12 we have to rely on case reports anymore. So I wrote
13 to the journal.
14 And Dr. Selikoff, at that time he was still
15 alive, he published my article saying that we have
16 studies, we don't need to look at case reports
17 anymore.
18 And the two German doctors respond in the
19 same issue of the journal saying that well, we are
20 doing a case control study, we will know the result
21 very soon.