Ludvig Hektoen to Leroy Gardner Declining the Asbestos and Lung Cancer Grant (1944)

A one-page letter of January 10, 1944, from Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, executive director of the National Advisory Cancer Council, to Dr. Leroy Gardner at the Saranac Laboratory. Hektoen reported that at its meeting on January 8 the Council "decided not to recommend" the laboratory's application for a grant of $10,000 "to support the experimental study of the relationship of asbestosis to lung cancer in mice." The letter gives no reason.

What it shows

This ended the request Gardner had opened in March 1943, when he told the cancer committee that he could not ask the asbestos manufacturers who had paid for his earlier work for more money. The controlled mouse experiment he had proposed was not funded by the government.

In Johns-Manville's chronology

Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:

Letter from NCI to Dr. Gardner stating they have decided to deny his application for a research grant for further asbestosis experiments

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• Leroy Gardner to Ludvig Hektoen of the National Cancer Institute on Cancer in Asbestos-Dusted Mice (1943)
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• R. R. Spencer of the National Cancer Institute to Leroy Gardner on His Grant Application (1943)
• R. R. Spencer and Ludvig Hektoen to Leroy Gardner Asking for a Statement on Asbestosis (1943)