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; ._ .. _ ' QO-iOQS > " * _ * . ........... ; Rare^Fcitdl Cancerls hoivihg Up. [TEE ^ASHI^GTO.V PC ^Amoiig Those Handling Asbestos^ . MoaJot. D?c.:s. 1167 yr By Thonsa OTeole' .=. j wciiT--iA rt*s -sur: I ftli^e Or pin it" down at Ten victims of the disease' Autopsy*.. turned out to be men who. A*.'The- disease is 100 per cent .fatal." Dr. Borow states, "and usually takes less than a year 7.*A*^iUl cineer cf the .eiist: >nd abdominal cities.-is*, cropping up isaohg the-Na** doa'a asbestos sorters. * So rare tbit SO 7e*rs *w*.K ^wasn't even in the medical Jextboofcs. the career i* ealied 'mesothelioma, aad *ear,-s il* .most peculiar to .people. * 'posed to asbestos." . But oddly, these ytrleyen .with the dead!:' disease la* elude a nurse whose "father worked in an t~ eslos plant *ind t. man who handled as bestos tor no r-. :* than a month while he ituulated the piernbia; in his orm cocse. ' Bot la three separate stud* *ies In the last three years, dee.tors bare turned up 71 cases. Oddly, 11 cf them appeared to have had r.o real exposure to ,;asbtes. But the other 0 'cither worked with asbestos, llivedwrth people who did or ,lired In neighborhoods where worked in asbestos plants.' Eight were ?cp!e who lived! tear asbestos plants most 0 .their lives. Three were jr.euvfcers of families who had one' or more asbextos.wpcker roem*; fcsrs--a 2*year*oid Riel whose; father. vi an asbestos "en-* gineer. a nurse whose fj'her 'was one run In 1954 by Dr. -asbestos insulators fa a ship* after diagnosis .to run its course." i. Nobody knows why jt attacks isome asbestos workers and nm loihers. or why some victims nf .the disease pet It after an ap parently mild exposure to as bestos. The University of Mich* igan School of Medicine cites :one case of a men wbo was ex* posed to asbestos (or about n month while he Insulated his house. Six years later, he was dead of mesothelioma. Even the nature of (he disease is little understood. While It Is generally known that the disease attacks the, lioing of the chest and ahdo*| H Ary attested the disease fpets might come nose too iscon. More than siliion tons men. nobody knows how it* gets there. ! When asbestos dust Is lni of asbestos b cv. ir'.ii anrn* `ally these-days the Uc;ted' States. with more.- than SCCO xparate usea be;2g. reported r the Geer. There are 'at.asst 100.000 gs-bestos markers ^the United- Stitts, Jsofe' Sw.-Cn half of when did begin worirfn; with asbestca until 10 r--3 r -| la terms of *.*s cumber oil .persons involt the apparent: asbestos peri. -ay be even I {greater than :: pcsed by1 r.ot surprise him- For example, 12 ci .tie 255 died of asbe> tesla, a long-known but de* ercasirgly fatal (due to anti* blofrcs) disease brought ca 7 years cf breathing ia asbestos dust. But Dr. SeUhoff aiso found that <5 of the men had died of Jung cancer, a rate 6.S times higher th.tn that In the nor- '-in rcc-d fl?*V de74i d*e ^0 ^s^t,de3*h3 mesothelioma. cre-d with asbestos insulation jlhat flaked off a; the tpueh.: `Another was a worker ia aj ;brmery. *vhc*e heer is fll*| jtcred thruuch puip fi:ersj :made essentially of eoltonj and asbestos. The most convincing sturfy: is the `mort recent one--con ducted by a team of doctors; working out cf Middlesex ^General Hospital ia New; iB^SSci *X Yu? ^if} i--n t-e Nation's largest as-bestna plant, one that employs _,,v.,, Haled, th-fibers. get trapped! ]ln*the lungs, where they forar jjuremy deposits. This explains }how asbestosls gets started, 'end perhaps even lung cancer. One theory is that the gummy substance that builds up, around `the . asbestos fiber* lodged in the lung can cause cancer elsewhere In the body. But how does it do it? Nobody knows. Because It Is such a new and little understood disease, 'mesothelioma Is also creating iuraaium rm Labor Score* Last May. Dr. Selikoif then launched '. 'rniard: a follcw^n study of. 207 con la the past ,thv?ree years, no} some serious social economic problems. and' * Wirtt estsh the first j No state lists the disease in Federal rad*.. : Urals fort .its workmen compensation undernrouad * ctlr.es] laws, so nobody afflicted with icllowla? dir :-,-j*! that an' it can he paid damages for his' estimated JIu r.eu had riled r affliction. Even now, the first' from lung ca.-. :n a mining: ;-- - -------- . . :i-.4^4ca ouji m lau.T* text cases are in the courts, population never higher than* 5K0. * ** Mesnthell'** first spot*' llrhird In V Afncan doe" n a South.* . 1 n2 caxes among the ; - Ilring and; js-tmr.g in -. * ni G-y-i' About the same time, the; Jgennj her bushar.d'a work Fcansylvanin Slate De?an* 'cicthes, the second a spin* .men: of ileaith began a bt'r.d.' 'ster. who lived one block study 10 find how mcso;ho*i-from the plant, llorr.a misht be affectinj the* A rriaurely "new*' dlsea*. more than 5020 achcsies wcrk-| 'mesothelioma is also one of ers acaiicred about the state. Ijthe meat difficui: diseases to where they may conceivably stay for the next 5 to !0 years. The fact that nobody krows how much exposure to asbes tos esn bring on the disease has created controversy, too. / Most laws stipulate that as {l-ape nshc: Hi. .The: The Department sent ques*; ;Confroa; modern medicine. bestos workers be in an en same doctor l/rore eases !years. . :i c; Jl Har.aaiiis to 162 hospitaJa :n!i U la almost Impossible to vironment where there is no the next two. the southcaitcrn par: of tie,-treat. Middlesex-General** Dr.: more than five million par .* -**i state, asking the hc'oHala to -MaxweirBorow aaya that even. ticles of asbestos dust per one ! 2.'obcdy )* ow ` many*' rseor: all mesotheliomas rf;a?-.'the ' rocs: potent anticanecr. cubic foot of air--a regulation U-*n2ric2ns :* po:crt between 1958 and -1963.: drris hare ae rffee: on ib| . that many in the &bcstos in* * *JU. Ever. 1< treubia y-r thr *i Jot- * dscicr* ."/tag' to sun ' Each came 42 documented'; cases of '.he disease, only 11 f: vhjch could not be traced to a^or-s'.oj exposure. 1 ------------- -------------------- \V 3 4 4 6 i- *1 About all that radiatjon treat-, roents do, he taya. :s remove] f the fluid that butidst *:a the lungs irnm the dii* case. ozcec;o27 ;dustry fought years to grt ap proved. ; Bu: wi;h mesothelioma, the disease might be brought oa j by exposure to as little ia one- * tenth" or one-hundrcdih that linj;i. Desnite obstacles like the*e, research pas begun in a hand- 00-1009 A worker operates ful of places to find cut more to the disease. Pic's doin? It-relate to an earlier time about tie ailment. Mount with a $3500 frant from the period." states Dr. W. D. Nor* Sinai's Dr. Scllkeff is row con* `Paper-makers- Cnlon. which wood, of ftichland, Wash., rtantly monitorin? the 1500 represents the asbestos work* -:sc health problem In the members Workers tan New of the Asbertes Union In metropoli York. The Philadel era in tha New Jersey plant Dr. Soraw studied. It wasn't easy cettir.? the money. Dr. Dorow went to <0 future mar he very extensive am serious." Indeed, it may be true.'as many doctors think, that it phia Joeal of the same union orpanisatioss before h pot It takes 30 years of exposure to ih23 started a similiar program --including the American Can- asbestos to fcnnu on most with Kahneman Hospital to cer Society and the I'uhlia rases of the disease, tf this uncover mere ifJar.mavon. Tlcailh Service. is sa. says Dr. Norwood, "larpe Middlesex General's Dr... Some doctors think the.number; of malijnarcies are .Borow says that he Is in the mesothelioma problem is Just beuinnir.r to occur i*d will IprocrM of setllnp t*r> travel- hecir.r.m;. `'Slr.ee .the malic- substantially increase in the lln.t exhibit to bring attention nancies now bc:nd rcensnired near future.'' 1 3 4 4 6 ijb 020SC/Or8