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FRICTION MATERIALS STANDARDS INSTITUTE, INC., E.210 ROUTE 4, PARAMUS, N.J.07652 October 10, 1972 TO: MEMBERS OF THE ASBESTOS STUDY COMMITTEE SUBJECT: ASBESTOS PUBLICITY - DR. SELIKOFF Attached is an article from the New York Times of October 5, 1972. Of particular interest is that paragraph concerned with "wearing away of asbestos brake linings in automobiles and trucks." The reporter says this is a"significant source of airborne asbestos." This paragraph is not directly related to the headline and lead article concerning the Incidence of cancer of the stomach, colon and rectum (as well as lung cancer) in workers exposed to asbestos. Ordinarily, there will be an article of this type in the Times about every month with Dr. Selikoff generally the source. EWD:llz Enc. E. W. Drislane Executive Director FMSI 06560 A team of cancer researchers borne asbestos fibers., reported yesterday that asbes |&At that time! therelwss tos, already' implicated las^faj suggestion that othertypes cause of lung cancer in work cancer-- mightJ also' be ym ers repeatedly exposed ; tb the common, buthot untilfno . material,^might *' alsoj have the '`scientists said,ijwas-;the| | caused a Wire-fold' increase in sufficient statistical evidencej I the incidence of cancer of the confirm the susplclb ~ ; stomach; colon aha rectum in However;.' now.Kthatl ' the same workers, ii ; A time has elapsed since the t| The finding, which the scien- tial exposure-to asbestos, f tbits said confirmed a long-held researchers found that.41 woii ^suspicion, raises the*possibility ershad died of cancer of that the low levels of air- stomach, colon or rect [ [ i' i borne asbestos particles known to exist in urban air may in crease the risk of cancer among the public at large.: * V about three times the numlj that would have been ; _ , under normal tircumstanoes; | : Among the same -numberj II The researchers also said that [their findings might-lead'to aj better understanding of gastro- Lintestlnal cancer, the causes of i which are not known. ;4, * mehiin a imilar age group:T unusually, exposed to aisbesti only 12.5 shouMhave^diedl the. same cuases. Earlier studies have sho that in the process of apply ? The' report was given in asbestos insulation ! during LXyon, France, before the Inter-i construction - of . buildings i 1 national Agency for Research ships, countless tiny parti<| ton Cancer, an arm of the of the material; become 1 World Health Organization, by lodged and float : into the tSj Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of the In urban areas it . has ibe|T,, Mount Sinai School of Medi- skown that another, iigni&aiifl 1 cine and Dr. E. Cuyler Ham source of airborne asbestos[ds|| mond and Herbert Seidman of the wearing away of asbtotost the American Cancer Society's brake linings in automObilesl | Environmental Cancer Re and tnfcks. The act of appl; search Project. the brakes in such vet The findings are based%n rubs, off a fine asbestos! .study of 632 member^ Jof that is then kicked the New York and,blew geraey air by the drafts of branches - of the' insulation itriafffiicc..--|;T:?/,1.rfc-^'^ * [workers' union who worked ^Examination of the dth various forms of asf-^-TMArsons; and. animals! e widely,used fireproof! : such airlias shov j. xeriaL ^particles' often lodge i 1 ' From 1943, when the___ began, until the end of dtVTlj the researchers monitored the health and causes of death of] the workers. Several years ago Dr. Selikoff and Dr. Hammond afe and, apparentiy,' embedded for longperiodsjofj Hine. v "Last ; week ,Dr. v^Bduki jported on e study^f i * calculated that insulation! exposure among World .WiFi workers . were dying of lung][Shipbuilders. He warneilj cancer about tight timSs as' such persons should .be av their increased risk of - canl and should get more fr# uent .check-ups so that the ' nan be diagnosed when '" table. '' hr. V. Ocm /IfcJC Nor^