Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers to the Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (1972 meeting), with Target Health Hazard Fact Sheet on Silica

Report of the IARC advisory committee that met in Lyon on 5-6 October 1972 to review evidence linking asbestos to cancers. It lists panel members and answers general questions on lung cancer, mesothelioma, smoking and low-level exposure, then sets out research recommendations in epidemiology, pathology, and physics and chemistry. The last page is an unrelated one-page 'Target Health Hazard Fact Sheet' on silica. 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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What the document holds

• Pages 1-3: Meeting description and lists of the Epidemiology, Pathology, and Physics and Chemistry panel members, with affiliations
• Pages 3-4: Terms of reference and coordination of international cooperation (UICC and IARC)
• Pages 4-6: General review: answers to questions on asbestos types, lung carcinoma, mesothelioma, smoking, other cancers, and low-level exposure
• Pages 6-12: Recommendations for further research in epidemiology, pathology and experimental pathology, and physics and chemistry
• Page 13: Target Health Hazard Fact Sheet on silica (separate document, Bates UCASB00758269)

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.

• IARC (its organization)
• Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers (named)
• 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)
• Institute of Occupational Medicine (named)
• Johns-Manville Research and Engineering Centre (named)
• McGill University (named)
• Medical Research Council (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)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Amosite: Brown Asbestos and the US Navy · Asbestos and Lung Cancer · Chrysotile: White Asbestos, the Most Common Type · IARC · Mesothelioma: What It Is, How It's Diagnosed, and How It's Treated.

About this copy

This is document UC-5401 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 13 pages. Production numbers UCASB00663842 to UCASB00758269.