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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1959 Apr 7 DOC NMA135 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION LA Times - Cancer Seminar Article 3 -- No Title Los Angeles Times Current File Pg 23 Apr 7 1959 ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles Times 1881-1985 1881-1985 1881-1985 CANCER SEMINAaRnd Continued from First Page ricating plants lead zinc and the final day of American Cancer Society seminar in- dicated that smog may have far more influence in caus- ing death in people with copper miners shipboard enroom workers exposed to petroleum products construction painters and com- mercial and restaurant cooks heart or asthma conditions Both industry and labor Occupation'aOcupation'a Factor ; A new study conducted in California indicated that several groups of workers including welders cooks and commercial painters have a high incidence of lung cancer The study reported by Dr. Lester Breslow chief of the chronic disease bureau of the California Department of Public Health I agree that cigarette smoking seems to be the organizations have social obligations to employees for the development of cancer prevention measures Dr. Breslow said Industry fears the costs unfavorable pub- licity and increasing govern mental regulations which might emerge from more general knowledge of such problems he said Trade unions have some times stressed extra pay for hazardous occupation such major cause of the large in- crease lung cancer cases Dr. Breslow said But at to those involving exposures even affect miners of urani- to certain disease risks um and other radioactive certain than ores emphasizing preventive measures which eight specialists might be undertaken he All eight of the specialists added r agreed that it has been defi- Among the established chemical and physical can- causing agents for man according to Dr. Michael B. Shimkin of the U.S. Public nitely established that ciga- rette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer Only two of the panelists smoked and they smoked pipes Health Service are chemi- Dr. Breslow emphasized cals like arsenic affecting the potential danger of dyes the skin chromates for lung aromatic amines chromate including petroleum paraffin nickel for nasal sinuses and naphthylamine 1 lung and naphthynaphtylaminle amine for including wax which have been . associated bladder ; , Only Two Smoke with cancer of the scrotum In modern industry he Also violet radiation said new chemical processes including sunshine causing are being developed almost cancer after excessive ex- faster than they can be cat- posure and radiation from alogued to say nothing of X rays or radioactive ma- their being adequately in- terials affecting the skin or vestigated for possible dan- the bone marrow This may gers to workers least a substantial minority appears must be accounted for by occupation Indeed the whole sub- ject of industrial exposure and cancer needs urgent at- tention Dr. Breslow examined records of more than 500 cancer patients in 13 California hospitals starting in 1950 and found a higherthan - expected cancer incidence among welders steamfitters boilerma ers and other workers exposed to asbestos bridge- crane operators in metal fab- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission