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Exhibit pairs a San Jose Mercury newspaper clipping (from the Los Angeles Times) reporting a San Diego American Cancer Society seminar where doctors linked asbestos to ovarian and lung cancer, with a page of JAMA letters to the editor from June 10, 1968. The JAMA letter 'Asbestos and Mesothelioma' reports mesothelioma cases in chrysotile-exposed workers and concludes that inhaling any form of asbestos carries a certain risk. unreviewed
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- Author
- Melvin C. Godwin, MD (Hines, Ill (letter writer, JAMA)); George Jagatic, MD (Hines, Ill (letter writer, JAMA))
- Published by
- San Jose Mercury (reprinting the Los Angeles Times); Journal of the American Medical Association
- Series
- Union Carbide documents, UC-86
- Date
- May 2, 1968
- Number
- Bates A17944 to A17945
- Rights
- A published article used as a document in asbestos litigation. Its copyright is not ours, so we describe it and link to it rather than host it.
Read the article
Melvin C. Godwin, MD, George Jagatic, MD. "Asbestos and Mesothelioma." JAMA 204(11), 1968.
What the document holds
- Page 1: San Jose Mercury, May 2, 1968, 'Ovary Cancer, Asbestos Link' (from the Los Angeles Times), on asbestos and ovarian and lung cancer
- Page 2: JAMA, June 10, 1968, Vol 204, No 11, p. 1009 (journal page 151), Letters section including 'Asbestos and Mesothelioma' by Godwin and Jagatic
People and organizations
From Melvin C. Godwin, MD (Hines, Ill (letter writer, JAMA)); George Jagatic, MD (Hines, Ill (letter writer, JAMA)).
- George Jagatic (author)
- American Cancer Society (named)
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (named)
- Archives of Environmental Health (named)
- Environmental Research (named)
- J. & A. Churchill, Ltd (named)
- Journal of the American Medical Association (named)
- Los Angeles Times (named)
- San Jose Mercury (named)
- Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health (named)
Related pages
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About this copy
This is document UC-86 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 2 pages. Production numbers A17944 to A17945.
Cite this document
Melvin C. Godwin, MD (Hines, Ill (letter writer, JAMA)), George Jagatic, MD (Hines, Ill (letter writer, JAMA)). “Two Items on Asbestos and Cancer: 'Ovary Cancer, Asbestos Link' (San Jose Mercury) and 'Asbestos and Mesothelioma' Letter by Godwin and Jagatic (JAMA).” May 2, 1968. Union Carbide documents, UC-86, Bates A17944 to A17945. San Jose Mercury (reprinting the Los Angeles Times); Journal of the American Medical Association. AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/union-carbide-exhibits/uc-0086.
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