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FILE NAME: Smoking (SMOK) DATE: 1972 Oct 5 DOC#: SMOK061 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - Wider Link to Cancer Found in Asbestos Workers 1 unencofYsnriflar BOYCEHENSBERGIEERS/Sk back:ggrroouunndd--not-exposed t o^ A team of cancer researchers borne asbestos fibers.- reported yesterday that rashes itA t -that '."time" there ewas toe, already'.implicated -as -a suggestion that other-types W cause of lung cancer In--work' cancertmight -also be ^morp ers repeatedly -exposed to the common, bu t -not until ; -now; materikl,".j-might 'a ls o liv e the -scientists :said,-was'thece caused a thre-fold Increase in- sufficient statistical evidence to the incidence of cancer of the confirm the suspiclon^^atjsi stomach, colon and rectum..in 'However,r nowu--that binore the same workem. ^ -i ^r,^ time has- elapsed since the Tnl} The finding, which the scien tial exposure-to asbestos, -the tists said confirmed a long-held researchers found that41 work-;, ^suspicion, raises the'possibility ers had died \bf cancer of the that the low levels of air- stomach, >'colon /or xectunf^! home asbestos particles known about three times the number, to exist in urban air may in that would have.been expected] crease the risk of cancer among under normal circumstances. ..the.public a t large.:^^-:^r:Y / Among th e same ;number/of ' The researchers also sald that menin a similar age.group :x t unusually.'exposed to asbestos, Their -findings might .lead~to a only 22J5 should-have-died wf 'better understanding of gastro- the same cuases.cj}f^/ilc gfcg jntestinal cancer,"the causes of 'Earlier 'studies "have shown which are not known.'i'V"- that in the process of applying " The 'report *was /given 'in asbestos .insulation .during ;the' :Lyon, France, "before the Inter- construction -of .-buildings -and national Agency for Research ships, countless tiny particles, i on Cancer, an arm - of the of the material .'become dLs-' l World Health Organization, by lodged and float - into th e akv i Dr. Irving J. Seiikoff of the In urban areas it-'.has been T ( Mount Sinai -School of Medi- shown that another-iignifjeant j cine and Dr. E. Cuyler Ham- source of airborne asbestos'as j-mond and Herbert Seidman of the wearing away of asbestos t the American Cancer Society brake linings'in automobiles' fEnvironmental Cancer Re- and tnicks. The act of applying baearch Project : , -----.... the brakes' in ' such vehicles' r The findings are based-.on rubs, off a fine asbestos;dust ua- study -of 632 members jof that is then kicked into.'the tthe New York and New Oersey air by the drafts of moving *Tranches -of *'the -insulation traffic.//* /"- workers' union -who-worked /'/Examination of th e innvs-nf with various forms of asbestos, persons and. animals^oxposed m widely,used fireproofinitma- to'such air h a s show ^thotthe . teriaL.-- `' - K b - particles often lodge In th etis? f From 1943, when the feto 1began, until the end of 3971, sue and, apparently, V emain -the researchers monitored The embedded for long periods o f -health and causes of death of t i m e . - - ' ` '> . c.*4-' the workers. Several years ago f ,'East' week ,T>r.',-fSelikoJf .Dr. Seiikoff and Dr. Hammond reported on a study asbestos -calculated that - insulation exposure among World W ar i l workers .were-dying.`of. lung shipbuilders. He warnedjthat cancer about eight "times Jas 'such persons should .be aware :pf their increased risk of cap- ter and should get more fre^ juent/-check-ups .-so that the disease can be diagnosed when t.isx n p r e -tr e a ta b le .;;/-^ ^ ..'- N ore Jv. V. ' T i t l e s O c t c /j ^sc Ftlz.