Document Qg4zvy3Max9jeMLzQM3XQYpzR
FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA
DATE 1972 July 27
DOC NMA034
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Los Angeles Times - Asbestos Lung Cancer From Cigarettes Linked
Report Mineral Does NNotot Cause
but EnhancesSmokiSnmokging Dangers es ential y
cancer researchers say thesame Kannersteinand they they have confirmed Churg reported indicating through confirmed human documented in-
cases the theory that creased incidence of lung
cer
occupational exposure to* cancer among asbestos|
asbestos enhances the can workers cannot be attri-
causing effects ciga-buted to asbestos alone
Fs ret mokeThis agrees with a find-
Asbestos exposure Asbestos
byit- ingbya leading asbestos
reported Wed.
nesdaydoes not appear to Celikoff of Mt.Sinai that
findings increase the incidence of occupational exposure to
lungcancer among asbes- asbestos does not appear
tos workers who do not to cause cancer among`
;
smoke
nonsmokers
~
The incidence of lung
=at Studies Confirmed
caneer among cigaret-
the re- smoking asbestos workers
searchers said confirm was 92 times as high as it
studies ap is for nonsmokers not ex-
proaches asrecords reviewing
to asbestos
posed } medical records but come
from what they said was
A Cocarcinogen
the first study appear aware ofbasedonactual . Kannerstein Churg-
|f
_
Starts
| cancer specimens __ said that it is as a cocar-
The report inthe journal - cinogen in combination
; Cancer a publication of the cigaretsmoking that
AmericaAn merican asbestoseffect
_written bytwo patho-
|
A similar situation has
New
logists Dr. Milton Kanner- beer suggested for lung
"steionf the Barnert cancer among u,, anium
orial Hospital Center in miners they said
Medicine ' Paterson and Dr. Ja- The authors said they
cob Churg of the Mt. Sinai were forced to assume
School of
inin New that cigaret smokers exist-
'
| Work
ed with the same frequen- .
- said study The pathologists
cy in their two
they compared 50 lung . groups as they do in those
cancer cases in patients groups atlargebecause
oc upational y
on Sil
qualit
exposed to smoking histories were
all the available
control
control cases in persons groups The researchers
''
oO
abe
4 not exposed
The major features of
7
said they were confident
the assumption did not
the cancersinboth lead to major error
SALESAT RECORD HIGH |: -
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