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FILE NAME Quebec Asbestos Mining Association QAMA DATE 1950 DOC QAMA050 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Internal Report - Report to QAMA RE Pulmonary Cancer Bere a em cee oR SME. 24 tet ua nade dnettouk lle womaaie aii, a ~ 4 ae 7 ee bat dd Ci eee ys oe he ia oad -3 < Tore suemn moreso Quebec Asbartow Mining Assosiation 7 ' ean Pabaonary Cam ae Oe 69 8 _ coe ene te eee NaN so enters A a'm wes ce maorte ate mn t^o ae ee 2 ae ht kozarja 0 kin^ ee aM Bet > MARGINAL MARGINAL MARGINAL MARGINAL MARGINAL ! ! REDACTED PRR oe ae e ar Fa GS ern Be >. 9 ww ae vs Report to Quebec Asbestos Mining Association re _ Pulmonary Cancer ng PS PROBLEM To ascertain if there is a relationship between the - inhalation of asbestos dust and pulmonary cancer as has been stated publicly by certain Health Authorities and in curtain magazines of wide coverage it is necesmry for us to be able to prove that this statement is not correct or to accept it and the com sequence that goes with it Our position in this itter is the arm as the AssocianadtIniduostn ry found itself in 1937 as regards asbestosis RECOMMENDATREICOMMOENDANTION It is rec to th Association that they proceed at once on two programe Pam This would consist of an epidemological study This statisti wocrkaolr surtovbeedoy ne under the mis- pices of a statistician of repute and it is especially recommerzled that this statistician should be if possible a ndian MARGING MARGING MARGING MARGING MARGIN MARGING REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED ai yn MT ; ~ with This the2 Trudeau puting petingtrodev Jeling jroa, theUnder . these in carbon up a Longthe end af anotherother cancer theTrudeau elnets. resarch druosctaadiulscutn beSaranacleling Foundatiutilzed. it end and is Laboratorydealing docould They our with ere of do recomend work the this elunim, preantly pare]by Edvardthat 1. 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MARGINALIA REDACTED t supices MARGINAL MARGINLA Ramoudy Inst{- of this Rov 7 i : ne The United States Public Health and Cancer Research DMerrrewewtherther National Cancer Institute have all published that there a relationship between between asbestos dust and pulmonary cancer They have made se se published statements only an statistical data mine mo research has bee done and these statistical date are based only on death statistics For this reaSOE the Short Range Program has been recomended to you since we are informed by our own medical officers that, @.e This statistical information is not confirmed in their opinion in our workmen workmen b The statistical survey is the most rapid cheapest and more conclusive ! than any other method @. We would be using the same methods as our antagonista Personnal Requireds The following personnal are considered necessary to maks this surveys AT , ee, a a. One statistician of repute oran medical actuary of I thn e surantcya g & medical ( ticlan considered preferable. wwe ee www sve meet " b. ray consultant Dr. Smith and Dr. Cartier could very well serve as consultanwittsh aranac reporting on bordar cases. estimated The estimated mak ofiman kig ng this report is 4,000 maximm and the required time to emplata is four months a dind . - - . oy . ~ ^' : ote ve 6 es tate ~ ate ne we ew eet . rE a on . n tt RR I PTLA Le eg a . er 4. f gs wo . 2 34% a - sw neers * aa an ^' , ot ra 74 woe k e x how > + 9 frnses . Log te tae . wr a - tll r yn * uf re oe - . art . a . oe at ~ OP ge Aweenat . . ~ Pa, nal oe3Qf. neA 8 oe uy cd - . ov: jar mS PA a ~~ e Re wm a & ~- so : a Ne + - ti res 4 vt}. 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The proposal under this program consists of trans omplantingE lo iviw ne g tissue of an embryo mouse with fibre mmplanted into a living mouse to see if cancer ORA be produced This proposal can only be considered as a screening and cannot be regarded as positive data but only as a probability if the research doctore are able to reproduce pulmonary cancer If there is no reproduction there is no proof neither nega ortni egv atie ve The estimated cost of this program would be 10,000 for the first year with no further mittments on our part at the end of the first year but it is not considered probable that any results would be forth- coming prior to two years . MARGINALIA REDACTED Range Progre 2.2. studies carried co at Seraneo It ie recomenied that if the Long Range Program is adopted then this is the progres that should be adopteds Saranac is the central repository of industrial lung data They have the inhalation chaubers and techn foridc oini g ta hisntys pe of research and they have a number of years of research with us in asbestosis Likewise Dr. Abode vho is connected with the Sloan- Kettering Cancer Research Foundation is in Sarwa ithn Saa rano ao This study would require a statum of three years and probably five years It is estima totceosdt 16,000 the first year and 10,000 the second year Each member company is in receipt of a copy of their proposal X o www ane? ~~ ! Program The third 1. It is the feeling of your mittes that along with the Short Range Program and the Long Range Program a third phase should be developed That phase would consist of nore publicity coming from our issociation than has in the past rather than taking the defensive attitude that we hav Ve would point out that Dr. Paul Cartier has been published in France and Portugal re- garding the incidence of beart disease and tuberculosis in the asbestos industry but our a. That we arrange t nave our doctors lecture 3. That we attempt to arrange to affiliate our In this ter v feel that we would combat reports which we believe with the information at hand to be erroneous We believe that publicity on the part of our Institute would combat erronemus reporta much as Jean Marchand sade in Thetford recently when he quoted from what be reported to be en official report of the Third International Conference on pneumonicosia This report has not as yet been issued . REDACTED a | S Another phase of this progren would be to consider th formation of an institute foreirndustrial chest diseases wee with other mining associations This would require like vise the cooperation of Doctors Gregoire of the Rossmment Sanitarium Burke of the laurentian Sanitarium Rollami of the Cartierville Sanitarium and Vivien of McGill University University It would also be desirable to arrange through McGill a scholar following plan of study at Baranac as did Dr. Gregoire in the physicfail elo d g TheiPc roa vinl ce would likse endloy ne a. MARGINALIA | . REDACTED