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A three-page progress report of September 25, 1956, from Dr. G. W. H. Schepers of the Saranac Laboratory to the American Cancer Society on research grant ENV-6, the experiment combining inhaled beryllium sulphate and asbestos dust in rats. Schepers wrote that "no informative progress report is as yet possible" and that the experiment was "proceeding satisfactorily as planned." About 116 rats had been exposed to each dust for six months and moved between chambers, with 51 controls; there were "not yet any suggestive lesions relating to neoplasia" in the animals exposed to asbestos for six months and then killed.
- Author
- G. W. H. Schepers
- Published by
- Saranac Laboratory
- Date
- September 25, 1956
- Number
- Bates 010446–010447
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 24577 · asbestosclaims.law/library/24577
- Rights
- Republished under fair use for research and historical study.
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The report gives the counts of animals moved, killed and dead in each group, and the schedule: exposures were to end on January 5, 1957, with observation continuing until January 5, 1958. It is an interim report only and gives no results on cancer. It continues the 1955 extension application.
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G. W. H. Schepers. “Saranac Laboratory Progress Report to the American Cancer Society on the Asbestos and Beryllium Lung Cancer Experiment.” September 25, 1956. Bates 010446–010447. Saranac Laboratory. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 24577. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/24577.
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