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J. W. Humphrey E, J, Faaold ASBESTOSIS . , . 9A3/61 Mr, Boadway has sent me a copy of An Epidemiological .Study Of . Lung Cancer In Asbestos Miners which was reported by the In dustrial Hygiene Foundation of America, Inc,, Pittsburgh, Penn sylvania in September, 1957* .Ed stated that this confidential report should not be released until he secures permission from Mr, Karl Lindell who will be out of town until September 22, The report states that the study was "to determine whether a causal relationship did. In fact, exist between exposure to asbestos and cancer of the lung". If you could get more in formation on the scope of the present study in the U. S., we could determine whether this report Is pertiment by the time we hear from Ed, /