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FRICTION MATERIALS STANDARDS INSTITUTE, INC., .210 ROUTE 4, PARAMUS, K.J.07652 October 10, 1972 TC: MEMEERS OF TUE 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"signifleant 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 veil 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. EMD:llz Enc. . K. Drislane Executive Director P-CMSI-' 0C22 Ire^UneBUPfSB td'TOtJCtPOlgfllO I A team of cancer researchers bone'asbestos -fibers. C. * reported yesterday that-asbef- fcAl ThatTime' there'rwas j Yff, already cause of tang implicated cancer in ~work*{ts-c-ua-g-n-g-c-ee-srt?io--.mn*i-gthb-at t othebr tey^pnesotCqn t erf repeatedly-exposed mthejcommfm;-:bgt-mpt':3artil7BOs; 1 *B*teriaV:^might v also ~ haveltbe-scientists saM^waf-tbss * cansed -a tine-fold increase ki-isuffident stitisfira) evidence tc { the biridenc* of cancer of tbetco8firmthesaspidan^ivfc5 \ stomach,' cotes-and ifftun .ini 'However/' now- -that*e.mort j file same wcriten. ^ ?2 - ttbne has- elapsed since rthetint I The finding. which the adst-!^ -eaponzre^o a^estos, -tin turns said confirmed a tnmtAenSound tbatai work* r*rffrti**wi Titw pySrfHyjer>-bad of The fS_ ttbe tew Teveohf rmf^r-i^001*^''001011'^ etimg? rborne asbestos partideskcown ctD exist in urban air may in\ crease the risk of canter among about three times the tmmberj test would have bees expected under normal orcumstapces. y ;* Among the'same /munberja, Mbeir -findings might-lead To- a Fbetter understanding of gmsm>- intestinal cancer,' the causes i which art not known.'^; of] Earlier studies -have Tsbowa that in file process of applying t 3berTeport *was vgivec-:in asbestos ansulaucm.during -the iXyon. Prance, before the Inter- winttnirtinyi -gf .buildings *and : sational Agency for Research ships, countless tiny partides < cm Cancer, an arm < of -the of the material -"become di*>| ` World Health Organization, by lodged and float ' into The ax.f ^ ; Dc. Irving -2. Selikoff o! the In urban areas it`has jmecfCTT 'Mount Sinai .School of Medi- skown that aaother.significanf : eina and Dr. . Cuvier Bam- source of airborne asbestoses .mend Herbert Sddman erf the wearing away of asbestos) r the 'American Cancer Society's brake linings' in automdbflet fc PmwBHPHlil -. riw#r -ath and xnfcks. The aot of applying raearch Troject.^ _ ____^ . tiie . bakes'-m '-Such - vehidesfi -5be 'findings are'basedvc mbs.off a fine asbestosidufts E*-;acody *xd .-32 -membert^rfl thattis "then kicked 'intq^tisel raw Hew Yorkand.Hew Vocpmah'-by tthe. drafts -af^inocsri thrmdei tweakers* -smio-rh't'-iiwe'-hTott-twsdolarktieoDd1'pBwtnintinn qf kuwtwthidvealyrio.uussefdolrimrespiowf Tasutgoasatnar^lp,"t-p*p--e**rs-s*u--o_cn-hs~^a''a--irnT<-nLrasa--nmim--oaalsj^OsSoirKprouezne^fuli i8ftbtbee`aPgrarironaem,al-e.uJ'an-Mrc^tih^l'e^--wnth^feame*eon"nn?d"itt>hooerfefacdsi'tth?fTei;ferspSmuarerbtiaiwecdnieAddse,od.f-atf*eopnrp'-alloorden*gnge<tl.'ypia,-e.^r-'Siwokhedemsral<iiosnfj 1 health causes-of death'efj rtha wortes.- Several years ago CSr. SeHkofl and 2)z.Hammond piast-'--week J>r:vflikbrti reported no a stndypf afceatog calculated That- insulation^exposure among Wort^Rf^DJ wocketa^ware^dhg.`-of<^nngttiupbufldera.-. He -warM^__-_^_an -cancar-aboatwight~4hsev';'ms-such persons shouldkimu " ulr-tthheir increased risk of caM and should get more fre^ ,t^check-^'.so thst The nan be diagnosed when &is snore-treatable-.-;-^--. Mcrr b*. OcTfl ^7*