Hilton C. Lewinsohn to J. Wister Meigs Enclosing Draft Proposal for a Study of Mesothelioma Among General Electric Employees (1982)

A cover letter from Hilton C. Lewinsohn to J. Wister Meigs dated June 1, 1982, accompanying a draft proposal to the General Electric Corporation. The proposal outlines a case-control study of six former GE employees who died of malignant mesothelioma, with objectives, methods, personnel, references, and tables of relative risk by job title and industry from Connecticut Tumor Registry data.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Letter from Hilton C. Lewinsohn to J. Wister Meigs, June 1, 1982, about the draft GE proposal
• Page 2: Title page of proposal to General Electric for a case-control study of mesothelioma risk factors
• Page 3: Introduction: Connecticut mesothelioma incidence study and the cluster of six GE cases
• Page 4: Proposal statement and objectives (a)-(d)
• Page 5: Methods: record review, matching of controls, work-history reconstruction
• Page 6: Personnel: Meigs as principal investigator, Lewinsohn as project director
• Page 7: References
• Page 8: Table I: relative risk of mesothelioma by job category
• Page 9: Table II: relative risk of mesothelioma by industry category

People and organizations

From Hilton C. Lewinsohn (Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology, Yale University School of Medicine (per proposal personnel page)) to J. Wister Meigs, M.D. (Yale University School of Medicine, Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health).

• Hilton Cecil Lewinsohn (author)
• J. Wister Meigs (recipient)
• Hilton C. Lewinsohn / Yale University School of Medicine (its organization)
• American College of Chest Physicians (named)
• Chest (journal) (named)
• Connecticut Cancer Epidemiology Unit (named)
• Connecticut Tumor Registry (named)
• Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (named)
• General Electric (named)
• IARC (named)
• International Conference on Occupational Lung Disease (named)
• Yale University School of Medicine (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: IARC · Mesothelioma: What It Is, How It's Diagnosed, and How It's Treated.

About this copy

This is document UC-5137 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 9 pages. Production numbers UCC 010440 to A01986.