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4 Asbestos Exposure Is Linked to Cancer! In Cigarette Smokerl I Sr TTw AoocUU4 Pmi j . , Two cancer researchers sayi {they have confirmed through1 Ihuman lung cancer cases the j theory that occupational expo-j sure to asbestos enhances thej cancer-causing effects of ciga-, rette smoke Asbestos exposure by itself they reported yesterday, dots not appear to increase the in cidence of lung cancer among1 asbestos workers wno do not smoke. These findings, the research ers said, confirm studies based on such approaches as review-' mg medical records but also come from what they describe as the first studv they art aware of based on actual lung cancer specimens The report in the journal Cancer, a publication of the American Cancer Society, was written by two patho'ogists Dr Milton Kannerstem of the Bamert Memorial Hospital Cen ter in Paterson, N J, and Dr Jacob Churg of the Mount Smai School of Medicine m New York. The pathologists said they had compared 50 lung cancer cases m patients occupationallv exposed to asbestos with 50 matched control cases in Dersons not exposed to asbestos The incidence of lung cancer (among cigarette-smoking asbesitos workers was 92 times as high as it is for nonsmokers not exposed to asbestos It would appear then " DKannerslein and Dr Churg said, "that it is as a cocaronogen, in combination with c.ca reetc smoking tnat asbestos has an effect " A S'-nilar situation has been suggested for lung cance.among uranium miners, thev isaid JUL 3 1 1972 ABEX CORPORATION MEDICAL DEPT SPNY 000111