Objectives: Canadian chrysotile (white asbestos) could be a paradigm for those agents that
are successfully exploited commercially long after they have been found to be lethal. Mining …

On the night of December 3, 1984, the world was made acutely aware of the potential for
devastation and death that can accompany the production of chemicals, when some 40 tons …

Asbestos is the fibrous form of mineral silicate. It belongs to rock-forming minerals of the
serpentine group, ie, chrysotile (white asbestos), and of the amphibole group, ie, actinolite …

Asbestos is a naturally occurring silicate mineral with long, thin fibrous crystals. It became
increasingly popular among manufacturers and builders during the industrial revolution and …

We would like to congratulate Borron et al.[1997] for their attempted reconstruction of the
Metropolitan Life/Johns Manville Study conducted in 1931–1932. They follow the tradition of …

In the recent article entitled ''An Early Study of Pulmonary Asbestosis Among Manufacturing
Workers: Original Data and Reconstruction of the 1932 Cohort,''Borron et al.[1997] …

I congratulate Stephen W. Borron and his colleagues on their interesting presentation of the
unpublished results of the cross-sectional survey carried out by Dr. AJ Lanza on the workers …

We welcome the interest elicited by our reconstruction of a large cross-sectional prevalence
study of Manville, New Jersey asbestos workers dating from 1932 [Borron et al., 1997]. Our …