Occupational Factors in Carcinogenesis (1966)

This 1966 article by W.W. Payne appeared in Public Health Reports as part of a clinical symposium on carcinogenesis. It was a review, not an original study. It surveyed what was then known about cancers linked to substances met at work, drawing on earlier reports by other researchers. Its readable headings show that it covered polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, aromatic amines, other organic compounds, inorganic compounds as carcinogens for man, and the importance of studying occupational exposures. One passage deals with asbestos. It appears to describe an early reported case in which asbestosis was associated with cancer of the lung, and it mentions cases of mesothelioma. It described a study of men who had worked for 20 years. The scan appears to say that all the cancer deaths in that study were associated with asbestosis. The article stated that asbestosis could be produced in experimental animals by exposure to asbestos dust, but that efforts to produce lung cancer this way had been unsuccessful. It listed 18 years as the latent period for asbestos. The scan is badly damaged, so the death counts, study size, dates and cited researchers are not reported here. The passage does not legibly name a fiber type.

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From J-M's medical library

This copy comes from the Johns-Manville medical library. It was among the papers J-M kept in its medical library without an index entry.