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Two pages from the British Bulletin of Hygiene for September 1951, with an abstract by E. L. Collis of W. C. Hueper's article "Environmental Lung Cancer," published in Industrial Medicine & Surgery in February 1951. Hueper surveyed the rapid rise of lung cancer and the many suspected causes, from air pollution and tar to arsenic, chromates and radioactive ores. "Asbestos is another dust," the abstract reports, "which has been condemned in relation to cancer, in addition to its power of causing pneumoconiosis," while silica dust had no such action. The pages also carry unrelated abstracts.
- Author
- E. L. Collis
- Published by
- Bulletin of Hygiene
- Date
- September 1951
- Rights
- Published in the Bulletin of Hygiene (London), vol. 26, no. 9, September 1951, pp. 905-906: E. L. Collis's abstract of W. C. Hueper's "Environmental Lung Cancer." A British journal; its US copyright was restored in 1996 (URAA) and runs to the end of 2046, so non-renewal does not help. Shown as a summary only.
In Johns-Manville's chronology
Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:
Hueper article concludes asbestosis and lung cancer are very probably causally linked.
Editor's note: J-M's description says Hueper concluded that asbestosis and lung cancer are "very probably causally linked." This file holds only E. L. Collis's short abstract of the article, which says asbestos "has been condemned in relation to cancer"; Hueper's full article is not in this file.
Cited by Barry Castleman
In Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects (5th edition, 2005), which cites it in:
- Chapter 2 (Cancer), p. 69, note 170 (a related source)
- Chapter 3 (Compensation: The Final Check-Up), p. 151
- Chapter 10 (Historical Research on Toxic Substances), p. 672 (a related source)
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“E. L. Collis, Abstract of W. C. Hueper's "Environmental Lung Cancer" in the Bulletin of Hygiene.” September 1951. Bulletin of Hygiene. AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/articles/e-l-collis-abstract-of-w-c-huepers-environmental-lung-cancer-in-the-bulletin-of-hygiene-1951.
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