US EPA

3080747 

Journal Article 

Re: Doll's 1955 study on cancer from asbestos 

Castleman, BI 

2001 

Yes 

American Journal of Industrial Medicine
ISSN: 0271-3586
EISSN: 1097-0274 

WILEY-LISS 

NEW YORK 

39 

2 

237-240 

English 

11170166 

WOS:000166756400012 

While it is true that epidemiologist Richard Doll overcame pressure from Britain's leading asbestos company to publish his 1955 report [Greenberg, 1999], the surviving record from the company's files shows that important changes to the report were nonetheless made. The study showed a 10-fold excess of lung cancer in the work force of an asbestos plant of Turner & Newall (T&N), among men who worked 20 years or more in the "scheduled'' areas of the plant subject to the Asbestos Industry Regulations that came into force in 1932. These workers' mean period from the onset of exposure until death from lung cancer was over 29 years. The follow-up period in Doll's study was less than 22 years after the 1932 implementation of U.K. asbestos industry dust control regulations [Doll, 1955a]. 

Index Medicus; History, 20th Century; Interprofessional Relations; United Kingdom; Lung Neoplasms -- history; Asbestosis -- history; Publishing -- history; Asbestosis -- complications; Lung Neoplasms -- etiology; Occupational Health -- history