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Daniel Jackson, MD
Houston, Tex

JAMA. 1992;268(16):2169.

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To the Editor.

—The article by Drs Landrigan and Baker¹ prompted me to review the causes of death in my patients who have been exposed to asbestos. There were some 265 patients known to have had such exposure. The occupation of these individuals included insulators, refinery workers, construction workers, workers in shipyards (during World War II), a clerk in a warehouse for storing asbestos, and an inspector in a plant where brake linings were manufactured.

The Table lists salient facts about 19 of these patients who have died. The high incidence of malignancy as cause of death in 17 (90%) of these 19 patients is striking. By contrast, in Harris County, Texas, where most of the above cohort lived and worked, a total of 9838 men died in 1990; in 2103 (21.4%) of these, malignancy was the cause of death (L. Carmichael, oral communication, April 1992, Texas Department of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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