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FILE NAME: Friction Materials Standards Institute (FMS)
DATE: 1972 Oct 10
DOC#: FMS023
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo to the Asbestos Study Committee with Attached Newspaper Article - "Wider Link to Cancer Found in Asbestos Workers"
October 10, 1972
TC:
:2Z-2SSS OF T S ASBESTOS STUD! COMMITTEE
SUBJECT: ASBESTOS PUBLICITY - DR. SELIKQFF
A ttached i s an a r t i c l e from th e Hew York T la es of October 5 , 1972.
Of p a r tic u la r i n t e r e s t i s th a t paragraph concerned w ith "w earing away o f
asbestos brake
in a u to a o b ile s end tr u c k s ." The re p o r te r says ch*s
is a"sigaiflcanc source of airborne asb esto s." This paragraph i s not d ire c tly
re la te d to the head lin e and lead a r tic le concerning the in cid en ce of cancer- ofc
the stoaach, colon and rectua (aa v e il as lung cancer) in workers exposed to
asbestos.
O rdinarily, there w ill he an a r tic le of th is type in the T laes about every aonth w ith Dr. S e lik o ff g en erally the source.
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confirm tha iuspieiaa^2 uj
aomrrttS 'now. that T.non
has* tlaptari saea thahat-'
dal eapoaoreda asbestos .the
found thst.41 w
had dlad-of caaoaraf
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f daa aad Dr.- E. Caytor Hi area af airbona
. mead aad Hazbart ***" at tha wcariof away at
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t d E tlh e act of
tha- brakes ia
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a study at 632 mmbcra of
tha New York and New Seney Irby "the-, draft* of-m odss
; Teiachtt : wortan*
-of tha insritottoa union -who--woed
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fm widely.used ill eproofing.ma^to such airlu s showmshat,tt
t teriiL
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tha
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monitored
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health aad causae of death at tha workers. Sereni yean a g
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Dr. Selikatt tad Dc. Hammond
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th p iTMitw PTM
wona. war a
w ork-w ere .dying 'of "tang shipbuilders. He warned thai
about eight Times' as such persons should ba aware
thair incrcasad risk at her and should get morn fre quent check-ups so that the disease can be disposed wtoer fell more treatable,
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