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To the Editor: Camus et al. (May 28 issue)¹ present interesting and useful data on the risk of lung cancer with environmental exposure to chrysotile. However, the standardized mortality ratios for mesothelioma and asbestosis may be seriously confounded by occult exposure to amosite and crocidolite.

Our laboratory has analyzed a large number of lung specimens obtained at autopsy from chrysotile workers in the Thetford Mines region of Quebec, Canada, and from people in this region who never worked in the mines and mills. As a rule, only chrysotile and tremolite asbestos have been found in such studies.^2,3 However, we observed . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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