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FILE NAME Quebec Asbestos Mining Association QAMA DATE 1950 Sept 3 DOC QAMA046 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter to Dr. Vorwald from Ivan Sabourin RE Cancer IVAN SABOURIN ADVOCATE ADVOCATE THIKAI September 13 19 Dr. Arthur Vorwald Trudeau Laboratory Saranac N.Y. U.S.A. Dear Arthur Re Cancer Confirming our conference of yesterday it will be of help if you can present the program you have in mind sometime next week so that I be in a position to carry the ball further As stated stated I would appreciate your views on called short parallel program program a detailed program mentioning time duration and cost is desired As stated reference has been made to the advisabi- epidemiological lity of conducting some and some are prone to accept the idea survey at a not too distant perio However I have endeavoured to have all refrain from giving this consideration until such time as the general program has been considered and particularly until the control head of the program has studied the plan and has advised This does no mean however that opinion shall prevail As you know my relationship with Trudeau goes ba : to the very beginning of the last decade through which I have as Counse for some Asbestos producers here done my best to propound the prope e scientific views in our occupational diseases field The Asbetosis Asbetosis culosis field has been much cleared and in this respect Dr. Gardner Gardner : yourself his successor and the staff of Trudeau have helped so immense we On the Cancer front which we are now facing facing little is known it seems outside of some phases of its mechanism mechanism and destroy power whereas when we took Tuberculosis much more was known of Tuberculosis Tuberculosis Therefore we feel we must be more than than carefu in going into the implementing of a program which would allow us to successfully of et our problem in the light of actual experience and what is known of truth in that very fleld Our problem to a large extent is economic in the sense that it is largely one of labour where unfortunatelunfyortunately health and its relationship to the occupation is misconstrued misconstrued due to norance and sometimes prejudice with the help of skilled men of the n und in varbus professions who do not take the time nor spend the necessary necessary effort to seek truth and properly advise ALIXKI ALIXKI 860 1.89ING { ( ) : | | . ! | 4 | j } ! t | Dr. Ar thur Vorwald Page 2 September 13 195 I have endeya estev rdao y tu o gir ve ye ou d and George as general a picture as I could at this stage as I felt it could not conveniently be done by correspondence nor by telephone . do wish this winded letter will not have taken too much of your valuable time and that I may again ask to be apologized for having run into you all yesterday ex abrupto practically without notice just another of Sabourin's shortcomings Cordially 13/11 Fran CC Dr. George Wright _ )