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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1968 Jan 4 DOC NMA011 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION The San Francisco Chronicle - A Strange and Deadly New Cancer Among Asbestos Workers LA San Francisco Chronicle * et Duty No Security for How Than Views Hai Statemen ma Thus Jan. 4 1968 A Stran Europeans Fear Split Washington Washington A fatal cancer of the chest cropping abdominal cavi- is ties cropping up among the nation's asbestos work- ers : Lynda's Husband United Nations { On other matters 54: the rine Captain year rine Captain Charles Trinh | obb may be Marine President son's new immediate his more President law yesterdayyestyeerdsayterday Marine United said that same : year general said Retired General David Marine M. Shoup who was Marine Commandant in 1959-63 | not speaking for the Marine Corps when he discusses ment get the Vietnam war his other of and speci War II Shoup Worldhas throughspokesman Unite Vietnam , Medal . neral Leonadr F. Chap spoken out against U.S.U.S. inins Monday broke Chapman or longheld lant at Ccoorpnsfer Jr. who became com- com- Corps volvement 1 in Vientnam on oc asions recent occasions said Shoup knok news a private citizen and Secretary Thant said yesterd a statement last S by North Vietnam eign Minister Ngu reinforces stated view halt to the FI TopTop will the North peace his Thant made his GENERAL CHAPMAN No plans for Capt Rebb : spokesmsa pokesman n statement autho Thant December Vietnam doctirns no major changes changes in doctirns 1 cessation of the or direction under Chap- aNorth NcoerstshatiVioentnam is man's direcion Premiers and foreign of five European countries last week pressed or implied . degrees of fear that French veto of British membership may have So rare that 20 years ago it wasn't even in the medical textbooks the cancer is called mesothelioma and seems people people strickenpeculiar deadly almost peculiar to expotosed asbestos with the disease include a the nurse whose father worked in plant and an asbestos a man who handled asbestos for no more than a month while hel Insulated the plumbing in his own house Mesothelloma was first spotlighted in 1960. when a South African doctor found 37 cases among the people v ring and working in the Cape of Good Hope asbestos fields Alerted to the problem this has reporters can't comment . asked can't can't beyond that it security arrangements ems Marines ao. Carnes Marines Klesinger 1 : Klesinger of West Germany . same doctor turned 57 up Germany Germany more cases in the next two years ; ; Willy Brandt refused ' DOCTORS gaanrsowesariidts questiLoanFsi Nokb nowo s hod w my any Americans have had mesoth- |: elloma Even today doctors have trouble spotting It to whether who they're trying | who diagnose it in a person still whobittes alive or pin it down at an au- topsy . three separate poskin studies in the last three years doctors Pompidou ed French to Brit stanchly defend in three states have turned opposition up 71 cases Oddly 11 of k^vetry but he _ appeared them appeared to have had no real exposure to asbestos The other 60 could all be traced to asbestos contact either because they worked with it lived with people who did or Ifveidn neighborhoods heavily where the air was laden with asbestos dust American study The attitudes of the member ng- first tions whether the of was one run in 1964 by Dr. is Europe New The Six resigned to a sort Irving sort J. Selikoff of of Hospital progressive dissolution York's Mount Sinai whether on the contrary it who began the study to see if to be 11 determiecnonoemicd al- cancer in any way affected . by and politically united the lives of the asbestos insu- N- lation workers in the New _ AGRICULTURE _ York metropolitan area | He expressed the hope that France's partners will Tracing the lives of 832 remembers of the Asbestos . that the Customs Union Workers Union who were on the union rolls before Jan. 1 | 1943 Dr. Selikoff found that ) 255 of them had died by Jan. 1 1963 . be _ realized by the first of SURPRISE Some July 1968. } did France being the foremost agricultural country in Market has long manifested | Some of what he found foremost not surprise him that 12 of the the 255 died of asbestosis a known but decreasingly a greater interest in agricul- fatal due to antibiotics than dis unification its ease brought on by years of partners i breathing asbestos dust Belgium Premier Paul Paul Dr. Selikoff also found that charge4d5 the Vanden Boeynants of men had died of negotia that in blocking negotia lung cancer a rate 6.6 times tions with Britain against higher than that in the the will of the five other member mal adult male nor- .. population procedures countries and the marketmarket Even more surprising ha commission France had re- found five deaths due to me- versed normal sothelioma This incidence @ that he said require that of more than 1 percent said #4 all possible efforts be made Dr. Selkoff is high avoid strikingly to an unbridgeable high for a tumor which is bies disagreement generally considered to i; extremely rare . | Dr. Selikoff then launchedj unfortunately may proveisecutive proveisecutive deaths as contagious he said This This among bestos is why we fear that the insulation workers least throughout progress of the the whole north- least Communilteayst Again to his surprise will remain hobbled as long he turned up 10 deaths as the problem of new mem- mesothelioma due to bers is not solved About the same | time Italian Foreign Minister the Pennsylvania State Amintors Fanfani said Presi- partment of De began dent de Gaulle's news Health ence confer- a blind study to find how me of November 27 sothelioma might be affect asbes tdhae rfkoereniegdn mtihneishtoerrsizon for ing the more than 5000 council of the tos workers scattered Common about 1 | the state UCC 024993 the| Associated = : hospitals To Prest To 162 Jee in hospitals a, EE wee Pie ad ee .- See ee aes New ige and Deadly New Cancer Among AsbestosAsbestos Workers Even the nature of the dis ting some serious social and asbestos plant southeastern part of the State who worked as Insu- bestos one that em- it About all that radiation little understood economic problems treatments do he says is ease is ploys 5000 workers lators in a shipyard of the fluld that While it's generally known No State lists the disease questionnaire - they sent a to report In the past three years no remove some in the lungs from that the disease attacks the in its workmen's compense- DEATHS asking the hospitals the all mesotheliomas diagnosed passed Of 10 deaths which seemseemed ed fewer than 19 cases of me- builddsiseuapse through FATAL lining of the chest and abdo- tion laws so nobody afflicted . men nobody knows how it with it can be paid damages between 1958 and 1963 sothelloma . Middlesex General Only two gets there for his affliction Even now at the not workers The disease is 100 percent the first test cases are in the 19 were | where othfe nearby asbestos plant fatal Dr. Borow states When asbestos dust is in courts they may con- and usually takes less than haled the fibers get trapped ceivably stay for the next worked almost his entire life one a woman who apparently to run boller cov- inhaled asbestos dust in laun after diagnosis In the lungs where they form five to 10 years . her to asbestos exposure around a large insulation deling husband's work its course gummy deposits This ex- The fact that nobody knows the second Ten victims of the disease ered with asobfefstaots the touch clothes a spinster Nobody knows why it at- plains how asbestosis gets how much exposure to asbes- turned out to be imen who that flaked worker in a who lived one block from tacks some asbestod workers started and perhaps even tos can bring on the disease worked in asbestos plants Another was a out W= and not others or why some lung cancer One theory is has created controversy too Eight were people who lived brewery where it turned plAantrelatively new victims of the disease get it that the gummy substance Most laws stipulate that as- asbestor plants most of ratsothelioma is after an apparently mild ex builds up around the asbestos bestos workers be in an envi- Inear their lives Three were mem ease ratsothelioma difficult posure to asbestos The Uni fiber lodged the Jung can ronment where there is no the most bers of familles who had one to worker one of eases confront modern versity of Michigan school of cause cancer elsewhere in than five million part The most convincing study more medicine cites one case of a the body But how does it do dust or more asbestos asbestos medicine members a three is the most recent one - con- It is almost impossible man who was exposed to as- it Nobody knows cles of asbestos cubic foot of air per one a regula- month girl whose father was an as ducted by a team of doctors treat treat Middlesex General's for about a tion that in the asbes- is bestos engineer a nurse working out of Middlea Maxwell Borow says that while he insulated his house Because it such a new many to whose father for General Raspital in New Dr. anti Six years later he was dead and little understood disease tos industry fought years has worked in an asbestos plant Brunswick N.J. a few miles even the most potent of mesothelioma 35 years from the nation's largest as cancer drugs have no effect mesothelioma is also creat get approved Associated Pro and a woman with two sons UC 0249 BRASS & WOOD SECTION BRASS LANTERNS SECTION IS PAPER LANTERNS Bright colored shades of Tiffany A selectionof 2 shapes 3 motifs HOUSELD Japn from 16 dia 2.89 with