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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA)
DATE: 1967 Jan 22
DOC#: NMA128
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: The Houston Post - Doctor Asks Check On AsbestosCancer Link
THE HOUSTON POST January ZZ, ,1967 .
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use of asbestos, bat research ers seed to God more an-
31 question of whether as- were:
le s ta s ran cause cancer needs . "They have to go into the
'more looking into, a Houston chemistry of asbestos and die
doctor said Saturday at & possibility of combination of it
' 'scientific meeting of the Sin-
<*"> substances. Many
' ;'gleton Surgical Society a t questions arise - whether the
Saint Joseph Hospital
action of asbesos in producing
. Dr James E. Dailey said in tumors is mechanical (because
an interview that there's no **
needles) or whether
proof yet of the asbestos-can- ** ** substance itself, or
cer connection, but there is a,e f V tt
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some good circumstantial evidonee. He mentioned " fee ex
' DB D A O S? made it clear
tremely h i g h incidence of
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tumors in workers exposed to asbestos "
' "ASBESTOS IS used in nu-
merous manufacturing and
building processes, insulations
'of air conditioning units, in-
. sulation of pipe vessels. Ship builders use a lot of it, fabri cators of pipe tanks and heavy machinery, installers of manu facturers equipment. . "It is also used in office and home building -- sheathing of houses and buildings. Demol ishing of buildings is going on all the time, and the construc tion of new ones. "It's not hard to conceive that a'considerable amount of .asbestos will contaminate the air." Everyone has some ex posure to i t he said. - D3 DAILEY, who directs the medical education at Saint Joseph, says there isn't enough evidence yet to call for any action in limiting the
65116310188 8Pecla* is possibly causing or contributing to car.-
cer.
"We don't know too much
about other dusts, too -- like
some of fee plastic dust that's
Involved when they manufac
ture carpets. What happens
when some of feat is stirred
by carpet beating or by vacu
um cleaners?
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"THEBE IS KOXHKG in
the medical literature to de
scribe whether there is any lung reaction to such d u st"
The Singleton Surgical So
ciety was named for the late'
Dr A. 0 . Singleton, former :
liead of fee department of sur- j;
gery at the University of Tex
as Medical Branch. Members
are, or have been, surgical
residents at the M e d i c a l '
Branch.
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