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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1967 Jan 22 DOC NMA128 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION The Houston Post - Doctor Asks Check On AsbestosCancer Link THE HOUSTON POST January 22 1967 RECEIVED Leh PAGGEE LPS U.C.C. SECTIONSECTION REW . JAR - HOUSTON POST SUNDAY JANUARY 22 1967 JAN 30 196 MNG METALS DIV FITY CALIF AsksCheck Doctor Asks Link a Asbestos Cancer Cancer Cancer 2 . By MIRIAM KASS use of asbestos but research- J. Writer Pest Medical ss ers need to find more an- "J 2 The quesof twheitheor ans- bestos can cause cancer needs more looking into a Houston doctor said Saturday at a scientific meeting of the Singleton Surgical Society at Saint Joseph Hospital Dr James E. Dailey said in aninterview that there's no proof yet of the asbestos cer connection but there is swers They have to go into the chemistry of asbestos and the possibility of combination of it with other substances Many questions arise - whether the action of asbesos in producing tumors is mechanical because of sharp needles or whether it is the substance itself or the way it combines with oth- some good circumstantial evidence He mentioned the ex- ers DR DAILEY made it clear tremely high incidence of turnors in workers exposed to asbestos that he was not singling out asbestos as special in possibly causing or contributing to can- Kemens 1. ASEESTOS IS used in nu- merous manufacturing and building processes insulations of air conditioning units insulation of pipe vessels Ship builders use a lot of it fabri cators of pipe tanks and heavy cer We don't know too much about other dusts - too like some of the plastic dust that's involved when they manufac ture carpets What happens when some of that is stirred machinery installers of manufacturers equipment . It is also used in office and -home building - sheathing of houses and buildings Demolishing of buildings is going on all the time and the construc- by carpet beating or by vacu- um cleaners THERE IS NOTHING in the medical literature to describe whether there is any lung reaction to such dust tion of new ones It's not hard to conceive that aconsiderable amount of asbestos will contaminate the air Everyone has some exposure to it he said - DR DAILEY who directs the medical education at Saint Joseph says there isn't enough evidence yet to call The Singleton Surgical Society was named for the late Dr A. O. Singleton former head of the department of surgery at the University of Tex- ; as Medical Branch Members are or have been surgical residents at the Medical for any action in limiting the Branch i 7918