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AA.y. 'in A/S^S Washington, Feb. 25 /News Bureau)--New York and -New"L form of lung cancer and that many of these had been cigarette Jersey insulation workers'exposed by their frfbs to asbestos have smokers, which had undoubtedly increased their risk. - been dying of cancer four times as often as the population at large, a Mount Sinai School of Medicine professor reported today. However, he said, an additional 35 of -the cancer deaths were from mesothelioma, a type of tumor that is almost unheard of in the absence of exposure to asbestos. There' was no link to cigarettes in these. Not, he said, did'smoking seem to account At a meeting here of the government's National Institute of for the excess of deaths from other types of cancer the new Environmental Health Sciences, Hr. Irving J, Selikoff said 52 study has tnrned up. cancer deaths would have been expected among 632 men in the metropolitan New York area whose .health records have been Risk Cited for Others . followed innce 1943, but 200 actually have occurred to date. Selikoff told the meeting that insulation workers are not the It's Simp!/ a Disaster' only people at risk. It is apparent,--he .said, that people living near, an asbestos plant or with an -asbestos ..worker in the Selikoff, considered to be one of the: world's leading experts household have greater chances of getting cancer. on cancer-causing chemicals, said, "It now seems dear that one Selikoff also expressed concern for. the'100,000 men In this out of every five workers exposed to asbestos will die of cancer country who work in garages repairing -oh lining brakes. While it and probably cancer of the lung. It'a simply a disaster," was once thought that the heat used in' the process eliminated Selikoff--who obtained the data for the analyst? from the the risk from asbestos dust,* it is now dear-that this is untrue, International Association of Heat, Frost-and Insulation Workers, he said. The use of vacuum equipment instead:of blowers helps to an AFIf-CIO union--said S9 of the men died of the most common solve the problem, he said, but this is not .gehe/ally'known, _ SPNY 000080