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PLAINTIFFS EXHIBIT CT-20 Thursday, March 28, 1968 * KIST Buffalo Evening News Emmy Lou wo Scientists Suspect Asbestos May Cause Some Types of Cancer By MILDRED SPENCER . Bictfclo Nim ftaft Jtcportar SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 28--Two scientists. In cluding one from Roswell Park Memorial Institute, have pointed a finger of suspicion at asbestos as a potential cause of cancer. "Art started out life ms a con firmed girl-bater -- then he met one!" Asbestos is one of the most to It in our homes, automobiles, common elements in our civiliz offices and industries. ed environment, they told the "Asbestos is virtually in 10th annual Science Writers destructible," Dr. Graham Seminar sponsored by the pointed out "It can be American Cancer Society, fragmented into ever smaller It use has increased a particles but it is still there. The "thousandfold" since the turn of the century, coincident wife the smaller into the particles readily pass tissues by way of the increase of certain types of respiratory tract and possibly cancer. . by the intestinal tract as welL" Dr. John B. Graham, chief of "Could Bt Asbestos** * the Department of Gynecology Dr. Gnh.m and hi, wile. Dr. at Roswell Park Memorial In stitute. suggested Wednesday Ruth Graham, asbestos fibers is hava found son-cancerous that asbestos "may be a factor" tissues of exposed animals and I in cancer of the ovary. This i disease, which has been in- in man, though cancer itsrtf. rarely in the j,ci casing steadily in recent [years, ranks third as a cause of i cancer deaths among women in New York State. They failed to find the fibers in ovarian cancer, but they did find crystals of somedang that "could be asbestos" in tissue \ Must Assess Hazard from the ovaries of lix women Dr. W. A. D. Anderson, pro with ''borderline" lesions. The . lessor of pathology at the crystals were all located ad * University of Miami, reported jacent to the lesions. ' i finding asbestos fibers in the The Grahams have used lungs of 28 per cent of 500 asbestos to Induce similar urueiected autopsy cases. An In lesions on tne surface of the creased incidence of lung cancer ovaries of guinea pigs and rah- has been noted for years among bits when etUbeatrol, a female , | asbestos workers, . Bex hormone, was administered i Both Dr. Graham and Dr. to the animals, the lesions pro-, , Anderson emphasized '-that the greased to become dioieeUy- possible hazard of asbestos "still recognizable cancer. . , has to be assessed." But, Dr. "This would indicate," Dr. I Graham declared that there is Graham said, "that cancer of enough evidence of a rela the ovary may be a two-step tionship between asbestos and diatift which does not occur cancer to "deserve further In unlesAoth lectors an present" vestigation." Asbestos la used , in. brak ; linings, electric and' hnuaeW i imitation and a midtfplcity i other products. Wa an tapes ' ska Raltoad, naming 'hitler,to Fairbanks,