NBC's Meet the Press, Sunday, June 25, 1978: The Environment: How Cancerous?

This item is not a research study. It is a transcript of NBC's Meet the Press of June 25, 1978, printed as an appendix in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Guests, including Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Arthur C. Upton of the National Cancer Institute and Dr. Paul Kotin of Johns-Manville Corporation, answered journalists' questions about environmental cancer, including asbestos. The speakers gave opinions and referred to research, such as Dr. Selikoff's asbestos work; the item reports no study of its own. Dr. Selikoff said that among asbestos workers one out of five dies of lung cancer. Mr. Mazzocchi, of the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers' union, said less than one percent of employers in that industry complied with the asbestos standard. Dr. Kotin distinguished responsible from trivial uses of asbestos. Dr. Selikoff saw no alternative to asbestos in brake linings until a replacement was found, but asked that the one million Americans working in brake repair and brake maintenance be protected. Part of the transcript is missing.

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