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FILE NAME: Abex (ABX) DATE: 1972 Oct 6 DOC#: ABX200 DOCUM ENT DESCRIPTION: New spaper Article - Asbestos Linked to Disease w ith Oct 10 Cover Letter to Dr. C.C. Blackwell MEMO . . . from the desk of: "Tfi. c-c. nH.C/**- /ona SPNY 000105 tk e . -7S,W 7 linked io | / " I 'disease ! * NEW YK (AP) ^ as* 1 i bets, lid linked with i lung cancer .in .insulation. *. workers who smoke, was < further ` linkd yesterday | with caners of the esopha-1 , us, stomach, ln and < .rectum. ' .. < A, substantial number df , deaths dyr whist would be >. expected fremi these can-. V cers wre found'in. a study ( of insulation worker in the > u s. and Canada covering 1 \ the period ,1943 through | 4 1971. The report caine from i ' Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of th : ( Mount SinadSchool OfMdi-1 nine in New Votk. and t)r. \ e . Cuyler Hammond and < Herbert * Seidman ' of th < Anteficah.Canoer Stty. . a 'heir -report was pre- , . entd to' a meeting of a > V working ,-group formed So ( assess the biological effects of asbestos, at the Interna1. tional Agency for Research t on. Cancer, World Health 4 Organization, in 'Lblii 'France. It was made vail- f able in New York by. th r ( :A&ijci^iahcer Society^ _ SPNV 000106