Document XO4e6Q06d9n67QkJDa2enEdYw
FILE NAME Kent KNT
DATE 1972 July 27
DOC KNT162
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION LA Times Article - Asbestos Lung Cancer from Cigarettes Linked
essentially
cancer researchers say thesame Kannerstein and
confirconfm irmedeCd hurg reported indicatingthrough that documented in-
cer cases the theory that creased incidence of lung
exposure | to cancer among asbestos
asbestos
causing asbestos enhances the can workers cannot be attri-
effects . ciga- ___ buted toasbestos alonefind- find-
This agrees with a find- |f
exposure it- by
ingrya leading asbestos
Asbestos researcher J.
nesday does not appear to Celikoff of Sinai that
increase the incidence of occupational exposure to
lungcancer among asbes asbestos does not appear
workers toslung
smoke= ~
who do not
These Studies Confirmed
findings re-
searchers said confirm : basedsuch ap
-to cause cancer among
nonsmokers
The incidence of lung
caneer among cigaret-
smoking asbestos workers
was 92 times as high as it
for nonsmokers not ex-
posed proaches
-
as reviewing
medical records but come
to asbestos
Cocarcinogen what from
they was
A
appear - the
they =
study
aware ofbasedon actual - Kannersteinandapear Churg-
Jungsp^'cimens said that it is a a cocar-
The report in the journal...cinogen in combination
F
a
the smokinthg at |
Cancer publication effect
American | . written bytwo patho-
beert similar situation has
_ logists Dr. Milton Kanner- beert suggested for lung
Medicine = "steionf the Barnert Mem-
=" F orial Hospital Center in
cobChurg ofthe Mt. Sinai
School of
inin New
cancer among uranium miners they said
The authors said they|
were forced to assume
that cigaret smokers exist-
- ed with the same frequen- .
Work The pathologists said cy in their two study 5 they compared 50 lung groupsas they doin those
cancer cases in patients groups atlargebecause
exposed to smoking histories were
matchedavailable the
control cases in persons groups The researchers
not exposed
said they were confident
The major features of the assumption did not
.
|
aa the cancers in both lead major error
SALES AT RECORD HIGH ~
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