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FILE NAME Quebec Asbestos Mining Association QAMA DATE 1950 Oct 20 DOC QAMA049 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Confidential Memo from J.P. Woodard RE Asbestos and Pulmonary Cancer ee ent: SC He Wabi s , paint A Sige eet e@ Confidential 6 October 20 1950 aa e 1 A. R. Fisher Asbestos and Pulmonary Cancer Attached of the Proposal dated September21 1950 that Dr. also is George Foster's report to the M. 1950 which he had sent to you WHS dated points The main were covered day andI have made marginal to you Some items were when you Dr. notes in both Lansa and I discussed this yester- booklets that may be of i terest 1 Make the best possible pidemiological study by personnal we qualified in this field Desirable to have this preseda Sarutao Sarutao dust studies if possible but not necessary Dr. Lanza 875 Dr. K. K. Hammand is known to be good 2 It might be well to estimates on years beyond the first and second since Saranac estimates the possibility of a five program Doubtless theas years would not be any more expose , -- than the second year at 10,000 3 Under Item 15 page 11 in the Saranac Proposal there is the usual stipulation about publiostion of the results This ap m ap m to be all right but it would be desirable if representatives from Saranac would not make talks before groups bringing out information about the investigation that is not yet ready for publication ^ s you vill recall this has been done in the past and possibly cannot be prevented As to Mr. Foster's report it seems to me that the idea of putting eit truthfitruthfi propaganda is a good one in crder to counteract some of the wild state . ments made on the other side I presume when he speaks of having aur aur dostar lecture at medical schools that this would be only on certain occasions and not so frequently as to interfere with our normal business Dr. Lanza agreed with my thought that we would do well to avoid forming an mining institute for industrial chest diseason with other associati na for th obvious reason that we have relatively miner prot`ems prot`ems and might bec me identi- fied with dying dying some very serious problems in the industry in general v^ of allicosis siderosis and other ailments of this kin arVarkomen Wo dard R. M. Jackson t