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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1968 Mar 8 DOC#: NMA127 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: The Washington Post - Asbestos Held Cancer Source ? ' % A S M " ' b * ' , , U THE WASHINGTON Piwi ill Cancer Source By Thom OToo'.c M M I t M N H H a ll W im t One-out of five asbestos in-t The NVw York il.Hinr tUI aulalion workers in mclropoli-'lolci llic ubcomm;iire. imb tin New York now dies o( is holditi; hearings i.i; luns esneer, an eminent phy>Kdent Johnson's iomrwti <* dan told Conics* yesterday, .eupalional Safety awt lit aith -If these tores are Je.t.te. d to . the. country as a ic`a*npc*er In asbe`sl',tos w,m..-"tvf who. andif no improvement iP,te uie mountm: evidence, in the health hazards these that the disease u on a'ratno* men face is aehieved," said!" ; ' Dr. Ir#vins J. Se. l.ikoff,. "we m, a'v::mectits insistn*lolrlievstwateirsetict.anl- look forward to perhaps 6000 n n v incci, - ,w- an., deaths of luns cancer and per- wanted even better muata - haps 13.000 deaths of cancer m* For the pail s.\ vai. t?r. cencral in this sin;lc asbestos Selikoff aid. lie ha- .umi-m-- 'tradeatone- '*d an iatcne tuny **i wC .a5sw3aa,i: wsrsjsssn .r?,i president-elect of the prcsii- ?? *hr Asbestos Aorders York * * * of L 1 ^ 6 3 2 men haj been ! Testifyin ; M ore the f l o u s e ^ l * " ^ " * ' *n Select Labor Subcommittee ^ Dr. Selikoff a.sid these stall*.,?' ??" ."*{ i T ' tics "come as no stirpnw " to lrM* - ? * f "ul>' asbestos in d u in ' observers. 5v',cct** Io ri'': l'*i- **Ill IMS.** laid Dr Wlil Of. S^nwisi, 2aS "Dr. Kenneth fl. L ^ S m s u ,ti Chancellor of the V.nvcri!> . r nbch;," l iUcl of South Carolina, described i.eh,fbld! ' . the cave of lun; earner in a ^hatcam -.rs of several t>pcs j man who also had asbcstosis."*'TM. ***iK*,i`hle. __ combination he said was. mi^lit have ex u rd r.1 rare. Out aincc then. Dr. Sell- * or `sen deaths due t- koff said, -numerous similar c e r.-h e wwit on -but eases of this astociatt&n s r ,llti'i1V rc ^ *'nd '`.e we recorded." .would bate expected m u - or ten cancers of the stomach or , colon, there were 20." .3 Dr. Selikoff explained that v the "peop.c who work tn * dusty atmosphere nut only breathe it in. they cat at. tun." T Since Uhft, he said, -U>e fid- .-.tires have been even www. -While we would have rx- | rested SO s:ca to have hrd :s .. the past five years." Dr. Sclik- |. .off said, "there have been 113 - deaths. While we would have .. expected three to have died 0 '.cancer of the luns or pleura. r - 2a have died of this disease." *i Of equal concern. Or. Selik-. o f f went on. is a relatively new Z\ tumor related to asbestos ex>pour* called mesothelioma. 'Iwhich Is a cancer of tlie hnine teJ.ofTthhies eIlsievstucohr pcrilirnruin. a rare cancer. :'!Dr. Selikoff said, that it is- found to cause one out of. every 10.000 deaths. B u t( the 111 deaths tn the asbedns worker uroup in New York, he said, 13 have been ls*n mesothelioma. 1 -This makes it one out of every 10 deaths room: avhev' 'tds workers," he said, -iiwtead of one out of 10,000. j KM- '0 T