Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers to the Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (1972 meeting, Lyon)

Report of an IARC advisory committee that met in Lyon on 5-6 October 1972, with three panels (epidemiology, pathology, physics and chemistry). It lists the members, answers nine general questions on asbestos and cancer (lung carcinoma, mesothelioma, low-level exposure, smoking, other cancers, pleural plaques), and sets out recommendations for further research. unreviewed

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Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers. "REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ASBESTOS CANCERS TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER." 1972.

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People and organizations

From Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers (Epidemiology, Pathology, and Physics and Chemistry panels; final session chaired by Dr J.C. Gibson) to Director, International Agency for Research on Cancer.

• Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers (its organization)
• Asbestosis Research Council (named)
• Atomic Energy Research Establishment (named)
• Barnert Memorial Hospital Centre (named)
• British Asbestos Research Council (named)
• Canadian Tumour Reference Centre (named)
• Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches des Charbonnages de France (named)
• IARC (named)
• Institute of Occupational Medicine (named)
• Johns-Manville Research and Engineering Centre (named)
• McGill University (named)
• Medical Research Council (named)
• Ministry of Labour (U.K.) (named)
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine (named)
• Municipal Hospital Lüdenscheid (named)
• National Cancer Centre (named)
• National Institutes of Health (named)
• Queen's University of Belfast (named)
• S.A. Eternit (named)
• South African Medical Research Council (named)
• St. Luke's Hospital (named)
• Trinity College School of Pathology (named)
• Turner Bros. Asbestos Co. Ltd (named)
• UICC Commission on Geographical Pathology and Environmental Carcinogens (named)
• UICC Working Group on Asbestos Cancers (named)
• University College of S. Wales and Monmouthshire (named)
• World Health Organization (named)

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This is document UC-5213 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 12 pages. Production numbers UCASB00663842 to UCASB00663853.