Cancer Information in the Workplace: Annotated Bibliography of Educational Materials for the Public and Health Professionals (1980)

This is not a research study. It is an annotated bibliography of educational materials on cancer hazards at work. The Cancer Information Clearinghouse of the National Cancer Institute prepared it in May 1979, and it was reprinted in December 1980. It was meant to help health educators, industrial hygienists and health care providers choose materials for public, worker and professional education. Items produced before 1970 were left out, and journal articles were included only if they were educational. The compilers stated that listing an item did not mean the National Cancer Institute endorsed it. The subject index lists 17 asbestos entries. One is a 1978 National Cancer Institute bibliography of 162 citations on asbestos exposure. Another is a 1972 NIOSH recommended asbestos standard, described as stricter than the United States standard of the time. Others are Johns-Manville worker brochures. One of these brochures is described as telling employees that asbestos exposure carried higher risk of asbestosis, lung cancer (especially with smoking), mesothelioma and cancer of the digestive tract. The bibliography reported no new data.

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