1979
DOI: 10.1080/00039896.1979.10667445
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The Tyler Asbestos Workers Program. I. A Medical Surveillance Model and Method

Abstract: An asbestos-exposed worker who smokes cigarettes has a high risk of developing cancer of the lung. One thousand ninety-five former workers at a plant manufacturing asbestos (amosite) insulation products were exposed to high levels of asbestos dust concentrations in the atmosphere. The workers have been identified and located. A semi-annual medical surveillance program has been developed with National Cancer Institute support. Examination of the worker includes the following: history (questionnaire), physical e… Show more

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“…15 There were also 165 workers from a temporary agency who received intermittent exposure unloading the amosite from the railway wagons. 15 These workers were identified by a regional poll of temporary agencies after the NIOSH visit and as part of the TAWP. Dates of employment were available from the temporary agency.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…15 There were also 165 workers from a temporary agency who received intermittent exposure unloading the amosite from the railway wagons. 15 These workers were identified by a regional poll of temporary agencies after the NIOSH visit and as part of the TAWP. Dates of employment were available from the temporary agency.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…14 The Patterson plant was the predecessor to the plant in the present study, and used some of the same equipment and raw materials. 15 The Tyler asbestos plant manufactured asbestos pipe insulation from 1954 to February of 1972, when it closed after citations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) about exposure levels in excess of the regulatory standard. 16 The amosite asbestos was obtained from the Transvaal region of South Africa.…”
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“…The Tyler, TX cohort was unique in several respects; namely, the workers of the pipe insulation material manufacturing plant were exposed to high levels of pure amosite for an extended period of time resulting in excess death from lung cancer (11,14). Although not prospectively designed, the availability of sequential plasma samples in this cohort, especially in some lung cancer patients, allowed meaningful molecular studies to search for diagnostic and potential early detection markers.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Former workers (n=1095) of an asbestos manufacturing plant, which operated in Tyler, TX from 1954 to 1972, were exposed to high levels of amosite dust. These workers were enrolled in a follow-up study in 1978 that included periodic collection of sputum and plasma samples (14). The lung cancer mortality in this cohort has been described (11).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They were workers at an asbestos factory in Texas, summarized in table 1 (9), and crocidolite miners in Wittenoom, Australia (62). The 4 trials have the use of beta-carotene as a preventive agent in common, but the administered dose varied from 30 to 50 mglday.…”
Section: Health Surveillancementioning
confidence: 99%