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S- / The occupation-related Cancer of the Asbestos Workers by Martin Noaj^mann with 6 illustrations in th e text (received Qin March 18* 1938) The asbesto6is# the occupation-related diesease of the asbestos workers, is naturally tied to countries and cities which have erected asbestos processing plants. The knowledge about Ms strange disease is somewhat older and more extensive in England and in the US from what it is here. But even in 19o6 Marchand demonstrated an asbestos Jning to the German Pathological Association, without, however, recognizing it as such. Eight years later Fahr showed a second case and explained it correctly in th'^T most important characteristics. In the past ten years the disease has been studied especially in Eng land, the US, and Germany, and we are familiar, here and abroad, wit-, extensive routine mass examinations of asbestos workers. In Germany, one case especially, whicvwas observed by Beger and Strobe, brought important progress, because Beger examined the asbestosis from the miners logical angle in great detail, and with that triggered corresponding studies in other places. (Koppenhoefe , Sundius). After long years of asbestos du6t asthmatic symptoms develop and pain ful death occurs, since the right side of the heart is paralyzed. A considerable number of cases is found, similarly to the silicosis, in association with pulmonary tuberculosis (Egbert, Wood), and there are everywhere reports abo't cases, where the asbestosis was combined with a carcinoma of the lungs (Wood, Gloyne, 1933). The number of necropsies is small evrywhere, but they have been very much on the riBe lately. In Germany, there are, up to now, as far as 1 know, 9 cases that were dissected or published respectively ( Mar chand, Pahr, Loeschke, Strobe - Beger, die Biasi, Wedler, Boehme, 2 of the author). Although thcjliterature now and then mentions cases of carcinoma, there are only three publications from the US and England that deal in some detail with the problem of cancer in the asbestosis lung, and who express with care, which should always be exercised in the beginning, the suspicion of a causal link of the two diseases. The far-reaching consequences for our insurance system make it necessary to discuss those papers in a few words, before we report two observations of our own. The collection of the 6 ca'ses and^the other mentioned cancers in SCF-FA-0525 8003 1452 PRODUCED BY FORD