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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1972 Oct 5 DOC NMA033 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT Article - Wider Link to Cancer Found in Asbestos Workers BOYCE cancer researchers backgrouendxposed A borne reported team cancer asbestos fiberswas yesterday that asbes that time there was suggestion in tos already implicated as a that types more f cause of lung cancer cancer- might also be more . ers repeatedly exposed to common butnot until now materialexposed alsotohavescientistsstaistcal saidwasther caused a threincrease sufficient statistical evidence to suspicionmore the incidence ofcancer of confirm the stomach colon and rectum in However now thatmore the same workers the scien- time has elasip ncesthe e idn ; | The finding which the scien- exposure asbestos the to k tists suspicion confirmed thepossibility suspicion that the confirmed low levels - researchers found that works died cancer of the of ais r tomach colon or rectum about three times the number to exist in urban air may in that would have been the among crease the risk of cancer - the public at largesaid ET men various forms asbestos personsExamination with of animals exposed exposed Fm widely used terials 1943 shown that wfirehproeofinng ma- the tis , to such has the E particles often lodge until the end of and apparently 1971 the researchers monitored the embeddedfor long periods of health and causes death oftime long oF!of Dr. the workers Several years agoLast week Selikoff asbestos Dr. Selikoff and Dr. Hammond reporteda study on of calculated that insulation among WorldWar II warned that workers were dyingof shipbuilders He lung cancer about eight times such persons should be aware their increased risk of can and should get more fre quentcheck so that the can be treatadbilaegy nosed when N.Y. TIMES October 5 1972