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C; k: R** 5 Aus$ /?. S-Jv /?. |/oAfl f//M3 --=^-.^--~>~r>y^. - . -TI. ,, '*. ,, jam cancer Gulf Coast research focuses & on risk in industrial workers > SCARLETT 'Pset'Csvlreumt Writer comber 1964. The cancer victims, who ' may Qr.tpay network in industry, will be B&A i----- under i Louisiana: coaxta to determine 11 some show whether thfc odds of getting brain 1 toduatrlalworkert (ace'a speclal risk o( cancer are higher for industrial workers. Trained investigators will compile job t'i,n.this proyee'.to.bp'rtsita {wastage histories of all 1,000 subjects and detail, Jto&wffl m&JRJM&m *Pmc any occupational exposures to specific, diqn|f1 <* fill)*anoMSipoDalble so chemicals, Buffier said! QKT cm be cbntrpUedmnrotect the pub-, Bufiler is hopeful the study of a large health. ' . ^-.population group will definitively resolve , TJwstudy-^ the most mensive. brain. the "still very equlvocal" link betweA geanper reseafeh>vei$pwwMs) will braid cancer' and certain occupation#^ cover a coastal'belt stretchlng trom the and identlly tbe ' HSbston area to New Orleans and north-: Vgubstiuces ' ward to the Baton Rouge area,Jhe study Earlier studies Individual chemical ` area has a heavy'cbncentfttlon of chemt'^' itftoornmnaAl'P' levels^ cal, petrdcfcemical'^and efInlfi4TM ajcfhanCer'liihdl Ttithe Dow; todustries. pUhifi'Freepdrt^__ ,,_______ _____a_n_d_; ; ttwMencdmpessa pdpulattotf\ Monsanto In Texas Clty >' of about 5.5 mllHott people, Including ''.She said sevdrkl^tSaj^Vcdhipanids ` million In Texas, said Dr. Patricia' yeagreed to workwlth the rtWarchete , a principal Investigator In-the, /In1 helping compile' job and'exposure study. '" 1 ' - histories. z mi Buffier U an aaodate professor of ept-rri - The researchers, Buffier said, also win demiology at the University of Texas : ' collect present and past addresses of the 1 School of Public Health here, which'will study subjects, and these will be com work with Louisiana State University on pared with Industries In specific census - the study. Dr. Pelayo Corrfea will head 1 tracts to determine noil-occupational ex- the study tor LSU.- ; posures to pollution. ' The study, expected to cost A million, Water 8upply`;Sdurces will also be tsbeing funded with an initial 1800,000 Checked as another possible route of research grant from the National Cancer:;`"chem|cal exposure, she' said. Inrttute. * Buffier, a speclallsf In cancer epide- Bfain cancer, a relatively rare dto-Tr mlology, and Correa of LSU are now eaafe occurs In the general U.S. populay'\*windlng fip a lung iean^frstudy covering tte&jat a rate of only about 4JS cases laM rauchof the' same area''involved In the evwfr KXMOOpeople. ' '-' 'unew'sb^r,r'-. :;- Several separate studies at Houston ,:1 Rdnms'of another study by Buffier on ares-fchemlcal plants. In recent ypars the- effeetsoTHoUston air pollution oh haveifcownaljoormallevelanfbralncaihjihJoggere and asthmatics are to be an- cer among plant wodiecfc. Those #uqtos,;(,r nounced In a sertesof April meetings. . however, failed tojlnk.jtba <Usew:td.nru Thcftralh cancer study will cover,-M poeure toanyiAPfClflfi ctjgpjcel^l rJr; ni ^souUterfTLbul^ana parishes and six Tex-' "These sin^^teMlh^ieMPSyydfl4as 'QunCwistf counties -- Harris, perhaps only iQOp of 5,000 wakers and zoda, Galveston, Chambers, Orange and - aroundU'tolgcaaesif !teili,cahcg^,1JeffentftfTM ?*.!?*:. >-: - ' ' Buffier sald:;'Ttulrs' nptvt^ry,'l^,7 Resulta&therw^^ - number of cases to work wlth and really le>in the spririg of 1965,: bufBuffier declined ' address the problem.1- There'are not "-"to speculate on what those results will fie. enough observations to be significant "-' "I wouldn't be doing the study if there : It's like shooting BBs at a big target." - wasn't a suggestion (of a job link to brain " She said the new study will Investigate cander)," she said. "But I also wouldn't ' about 500 new cases of brain esneer, all ` be doing the study U I already had the ' diagnosed between January 1980 and De-` answers." AUSTIN \ Sc.0. *, IT f The Hoviton Po -* Sun., Apr. 3, 1983 ucc 053810