The Bay Area Asbestos Surveillance Project: Case Study of a Community Health Screening Project (1981)

This booklet, prepared by the Western Institute for Occupational and Environmental Sciences and published by the National Cancer Institute, was a case study of how the Bay Area Asbestos Surveillance Project was organized, funded and run. It was a description of a screening program, not a formal research paper. A pilot screening in March 1977 took one chest x-ray from each of 359 current and former workers at the Mare Island and Hunter's Point naval shipyards, and 212 (59.1 percent) were read as abnormal. The main screening took place in Vallejo, Oakland and San Francisco in July and August 1978. It was open to women who had worked in the shipyards during World War II and to male longshore and shipyard workers exposed to asbestos before 1963. Of 2,270 people x-rayed, 553 (24 percent) had normal x-rays, 690 (30 percent) had questionable abnormalities, and 1,027 (45 percent) had significant findings consistent with asbestos-induced disease. The booklet noted that lack of funding ruled out sputum and lung function tests, and that publicity reached some groups but not others. The authors concluded that a community screening project could be put together "from scratch."

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From J-M's medical library

This copy comes from the Johns-Manville medical library. J-M listed it in its medical library index as no. 004283.