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Journal article reporting a prospective mortality study of 582 men who worked at a Paterson, New Jersey amosite asbestos factory in 1941-45, observed from the 20-year point through 1977. It reports 304 deaths, 60 from lung cancer, and a calculated lung cancer risk about 80 times that of men who neither smoked nor worked with asbestos among cigarette-smoking workers. unreviewed
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- Author
- Irving J. Selikoff, M.D. (Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York); Herbert Seidman, M.B.A. (Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, American Cancer Society); E. Cuyler Hammond, Sc.D. (Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, American Cancer Society)
- Published by
- Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), vol. 65, no. 3
- Series
- Union Carbide documents, UC-2394
- Date
- September 1980
- Number
- Bates A02872 to UCC 015501
- 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.
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Irving J. Selikoff, M.D., Herbert Seidman, M.B.A., E. Cuyler Hammond, Sc.D.. "Mortality Effects of Cigarette Smoking Among Amosite Asbestos Factory Workers." JNCI 65(3):507-513, 1980.
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From Irving J. Selikoff, M.D. (Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York); Herbert Seidman, M.B.A. (Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, American Cancer Society); E. Cuyler Hammond, Sc.D. (Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, American Cancer Society).
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This is document UC-2394 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 7 pages. Production numbers A02872 to UCC 015501.
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Irving J. Selikoff, M.D. (Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York), Herbert Seidman, M.B.A. (Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, American Cancer Society), E. Cuyler Hammond, Sc.D. (Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, American Cancer Society). “Selikoff, Seidman and Hammond, 'Mortality Effects of Cigarette Smoking Among Amosite Asbestos Factory Workers', JNCI.” September 1980. Union Carbide documents, UC-2394, Bates A02872 to UCC 015501. Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), vol. 65, no. 3. AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/union-carbide-exhibits/uc-2394.
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