Jane Teta (Yale) to Hilton C. Lewinsohn (Raybestos-Manhattan) Enclosing Draft Paper on Malignant Mesothelioma in Connecticut, 1935-1977 (1980)

A one-paragraph cover letter from Jane Teta of Yale's Connecticut Cancer Epidemiology Unit asks Dr. Lewinsohn of Raybestos-Manhattan to review the enclosure and call her. The enclosure is a paper by H. C. Lewinsohn, J. W. Meigs and M. J. Teta on malignant mesothelioma incidence in Connecticut, 1935-1977, for a November 4, 1980 presentation to the Connecticut Thoracic Society. It appears in an annotated draft and a clean version, with tables, figures and references. The paper reports 267 registry cases and questions the reliability of the diagnoses because of low autopsy rates and missing occupational histories.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Cover letter, J. Teta to H. C. Lewinsohn, Oct. 13, 1980
• Pages 2-20: Annotated draft of the paper with handwritten edits and strike-throughs, including slide-review section, handwritten tables, references, author affiliations and a discussion section
• Page 21: Photocopied page of letters to the editor from JAMA, Oct. 10, 1980, Vol 244, No. 15, including 'The Autopsy and Asbestos Exposure'
• Pages 22-34: Clean typed version of the paper (introduction, methodology, results, summary, acknowledgements, references, author affiliations)
• Pages 35-42: Figure 1 and Tables 1-4 (case counts, data sources, sex/age/diagnostic characteristics, diagnostic evidence); pages 39-40 are upside-down or mirrored

People and organizations

From Jane Teta, M.P.H. (Research Associate, Connecticut Cancer Epidemiology Unit) to Dr. Hilton C. Lewinsohn (Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., Trumbull, Connecticut (Corporate Medical Director per the author page)).

• Jane Teta (author)
• Hilton Cecil Lewinsohn (recipient)
• Yale University (its organization)
• Air Compliance Unit of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (named)
• Connecticut Cancer Epidemiology Unit (named)
• Connecticut Thoracic Society (named)
• Connecticut Tumor Registry (named)
• Division of Health Statistics of the Connecticut Department of Health Services (named)
• JAMA (named)
• National Cancer Institute (named)
• Raybestos-Manhattan (named)
• U.S. Department of Commerce (named)
• U.S. Department of Health (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Connecticut Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Mesothelioma: What It Is, How It's Diagnosed, and How It's Treated · Raybestos-Manhattan.

About this copy

This is document UC-4089 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 42 pages. Production numbers A00588-A00628 to UCC 017514-UCC 017554.