Document YDDnQGyjMEBgX0nwoQNkaavRO

FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1964 Apr 30 DOC#: NMA005 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: The Evening Bulletin - Doctors Say Working With Asbestos May Cause Cancer After Many Years  ''i' ' V / . r m,- , ' : IV I, V- V l : v ? > t - .(' \1 ` f/' /.; . ' / -a. > / .4 * '<, j i e f r e. fL iM w '&/>./*). - A r -1 i y n y r MDoacytoCras uSsaey CWanocrekirnAgfWteirthMAansbyeYsteoasrs h i Ry KARL ABRAHAM 0/ Tho Bulletin Slnff Asbestos, one of industry's most important end widely used raw materials, was placed under additional suspicion hern yesterday as a possible cause of cancer. Here is some of the evidence J i off!i lik e . Airm.-ir.-in C.m- cerrt' .** .f'trr-:ai*>o;.'; ;,V'| It was his re-, port! than 420,(i00 smblv-trartniJ,>i.pn-smokcrs last DcerVirtn, f''iat..produced a ms- j o r j i m f c c t c i g a r e t smok- that was presented by a New Health Research Institute of in g a s Y V ; ib. hazard.' York physician, Dr. I. J , Soli- Fairleigli Dickinson University Fibers kolf, to a meeting of the Ameri recently hail reponed crral.ing AsiK.'Hmi D'O.mineral, a class can Industrial Hygiene Associa cancers in hamsters'by Inject of finuim,' l!;'u j have different tion in the Sheraton Hotel, ing asbestos into the lining hcniical compositions hut share Dr. .Selikoff's medical re around their lungs. the property or hemp made by search team hns studied all of He said that the Iw ard of nature in ' t b form of lightly the men who have become mem malignant diseases of lim lungs packed ' libers."b Pulverized as bers of the New York City-New- of asbestos workers engaged in bestos /if'iM can be of micros ark, N. J . locals of the Interna specific industrial' operations copic size. *; tional Union nf Heat and Frost such as mining and asbestos' DU reported.that Of Insulators and Asbestos Work processing had been reported 30 the Itii'tj: cancer' victims studied ers, AFL-C10, since Dec, 31, years ago. in '.N'ew York, all liad been ex 1042. They are building trades The New York area building port'd. .to a:h-'k's at leas! workers. trades workers, however, was years.'This,-'.m said, indicated . Research Report a group with relatively little lh$t if their cheers were rclat- At tlm end of a 20-vcar per asbestos Sclikoff. exposure," said Dr. cdjto tim asbestos, then it was a very'slowly tWycinping disease. iod, as of Dec. 31, 10G2, report So formidable were the Im fjiie i.'M'O.sura of these work ed Dr. Sclikoff, the researchers plications of this study, said Dr. er? In ` building trades. Im said, noted iho following: Sclikoff, that'fill of-the build wtinlo '..r-e1-"''tor linn that of --They .selected records of ings trades workers in the tlm rmrm.'nl population, hui how fi32 men who had been exposed United States and workers in much .m.' -'Ucr ii was would im to asbestos for 20 years. On the selected other industries should Imcd to ii-", i mil !mut considera basis of general population be subjected to tlm widest pos bly tvmrf l'meurch. mortality statistics, 203 should siblc study, so that this and lie dir-nolo that a researcher have died. However, the actual some other materials under sus working'hi F^mh Africa had death rate in the group was 253. picion could be proven or laid studied dhC" lungs of a large, The difference was almost cn tirely attributable to death from to rest. group oipoonip iimre and found 25 pwont' to goiuain asbestos cancer. 3jj000 Products particle: in small amounts. -- In this group there -'should 1 Ho said "he'estimated there..' have been, according to general were about three million build averages, between six and seven ing trades workers in the nation. deaths because of cancer in the In addition, he said, there are lungs or the pleura, a sac sur about 3,000-asbestos products, rounding the lungs. Actually, from pipo 'insulation to auto Ihere were 45 such cancer vic brake linings to floor tile, with tims. They wottid have expect- an undetermined number of ed less titan ten cancers of the workers. colon and rectum, but there `T doubt that modern iitdus-1 were 20. try could survive without asbes --Rronchiogenie carcinoma tos. World production has was responsible for almost one grown from 30,000 tons in 1000 out. of every five deaths, an in- to more than three million tons ridenre seven limes that ex in llkiO," said Dr. Sclikoff. pected h> the general popula Working with Dr. Sclikoff arc tion. ;-'5 .Cancers in Hamsters Dr. .Incnh {Jhurr. and Dr. li, Cuv ier Hammond, all of M l. Sinai I Dr. .Selikr.if pointed out that Hospital in New York.' Dr. Dr. William E. Smith of the Hammond also is director of PRODUCED JM - 83