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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1968 Mar 8 DOC NMA127 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION The Washington Post - Asbestos Held Cancer Source . we . Tee Oe wee. ~ won. ew oy ; d Smeg eee OF Gt FOO a . ~ ee erteees 6 wee - x AS Friday March 8 1968 _(rmmnunetmes += ' - om ees THE WASHINGTONWASHINGTON POST ceo Asbestos Held Cancer Source By Thomas O'Tools O'Tools Washington Pest Staff Weiter One out of five asbestos in , The New York doctor tuk~-l sulation workers in metropoli told the Subcommitire whic tan New York now dies of is holding licarings un Piea lung cancer an eminenemitnent physiddeenntt cian Julinson'sJulinson's pronused de cian told Congress yesterday Safety and Health Health cuApcattional If these figures are pro that nobody has t ken steps jected of whole whole to the country as improvement and if no improvement eva...raaz~-d~-lence in the health hazards these to curb the spiral cancer in asbestos workers despite the mounting that the discase is un a...raz~-d~- men face is achieved said a: Dr. Irving J. Selikoff we may Sticklers for statistical 6000insistinesistded were look forward to perhaps they un- deaths of lung cancer and per- wantceodnvie ncveden behtetersamulus7t3a8~ -1738-1738-1 haps 15.000 deaths of cancer ini For the past s^vara 197 general in this single asbestos Selikoff said he has conduto ' trade alone an stuny wit wit asbestos intense Dr. Selikoff is asbestos insulation insulation Hulks Medicine professorNew Community are niembers of the Newn who York's Mt. Sinai Hospital and York and New Jersey localst president of the presti of the Asbestos Workers Unio gious New York Academy Union of Testifying before the Select Latine House workers since 1942 Dr. Selikoff said On the basis Subcommittev Dr. Seliko asid these statis tics come as no of normal life expectancy trends 203 could have been surprise statis asbestos indutryobservers expected to die by 1562. But In 1935. said Dr. Salikoff instead said Dr. Sriskuff 233 Dr. Kenneth M. Lynch now men died Looking for the rea- Univers behind Chancellor of the son the catra 30 deaths of South Carolina described he said it became evident the case of lung cancer in a that cancers of several sypes were _ man who also had asbestosis responsible } | a combination he said w We night have expectel rare But since then Dr. Self six or seven deaths due to koff said numerous similar lung cancer he went on hut ' there cases of this association were were 43. And while we i recorded would have expected nine or ten cancers of the stomach ur , colon there were 29. 1 Dr. Selikoff explained that the people who work in dusty atniosphere not unly ! breathe it in they eat it lun * t Since 1962 he said the fig- gures have been even wure While we would have ex- pected 30 mien to have died in 1 the past five years Dr. Selik- 1 off said there have been 113 ~ deaths While we would have ' expected three to have died of eancer of the lung or pleura 28 have died of this disease Of equal concern Dr. Selik .. off went on is a relatively new tumor related to asbestos ex- posure called mesothelioma which is a cancer of the lining the chest or peritoneum ofThis is such a rare e neer 4. Dr. Selikoff said that it is qj found to cause one out of every 10,000 deaths But of the 113 deaths in the asbesins worker group in New York he said 13 have been frum . mesotheliomia : This makes it one out of every 10 deaths among ashes tos workers he said instead of one out of 10,000 =, ; - _; KM 125