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Management Information- Clipping Corporate Public RelationsDept~ ~iogm 113 Ext, 7277- SENTINE.L Publication: 11j7/%5 Date: 1 Page: - 6 7 & 76 .'COLIN HTOKES ' J. E. STICI?T D. S. PEOrLES W. S.EMITH C-. B-. WADR W.D.HOERS C.F.BENEOiJ H.C.ROEMER C.A.TUCKER J.T.WILSON C . E . sHREWsBURY M. H. C ROHN C . A. AVRAM R. S. SILVERMAN J . S. DO~~DELL . ; CeU.~URDEN ' V ~L.McBRIDE J. H. SHERRILL, JR. - MUBRAY SENKUS S.O.JONES F.C.COLBY D.W.GROUT J-.W.EARLOW E.C._RITCHELL ~ J.E.E()RIN • , ,- ~tCr Y~- ...-. . -`} ....,k despite' the fact that more~ cancer. victims are su:i.ivittg t1e' M.W5 s..vic. . _ ~B4SHINGTOV - People died of ca ncer ata higher, ratein the - The National Cancer Institute said Thursday it had no ezplaitai first seven months of 1975 than at any timesince the govprnmeni tion for the 5.2 per cent increase so far this year. began gathering nationwide mortality data 42 years ago. ' _ But. the possibility of. environmental causes. was-strongly. - In 1933 - the first year for which comprehensive data are - suggested by others, including a congressiran. who for four years availabie-103.9 persons per 100.000 died of cancer. By the end of has been investigating the use of cancer-causing chemicals (car-: 1974 the figure was 169.5. As of last July 31, it was 176.3.- . : cinogens) in foods and drugs, and one of the three scientists who The cancer death rate has gone up about I per cent annually were join y~rded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine since 1933. In I952;-for unexplained reasons, there were 1.9 per : three wee9es-ago_'. ` cent more deaths than in the previous year, but in the next 20 The-congressman, Rep. L. HFountain,'D-N.C.,'wrotetrCI years deaths kept increasing at the I per cent rate. - -director Frank J. Rauscher Jr. Tuesday to ask hirr to try- to In 1972 the ra:te oE increase reached 3.35 per cent but itfetl back ~ determine if the fivs-fold increase is related to "the growing use to the usual 1 per cent in tne s:ext two years_ . --- ' of and exoosure to chemicals in our daily lives." -~ Finallythisyeartheincreasetegisteredastunning5.2percent, "Do yo,rbelievetf:at theuse of carcinotenic f~±k~ additi es. - chemical pesticides,, herbicides, mdustria .c emicals an dru¢s to which the public may be exposed are important contributia factors?'• Fountair. iaquired •.: - - ' _ ... .....' _4 , In this cornection, he recalled that his House Intergovernmen- t~ O J1 tat- Relations subcommittee reneatedlv has.expressed concern _ 10/1.~ ' ~' about the potent",al danger to the public fromaite continuin --=• _ g of DES, a carrinogen:=cal!ed diet.hyfstilbesterolL added to, cattl causing agents in the ervironmer.t_'. fn art interview, Baltimore•said he was.wary of a_cribing tumor viruses and- the genetic material of, the celt,_said that the• long-term trend "reflects ~an increasing.exposure•to_thi-cancer~' cern about nitrates and nitrites; othercarcinogens.•that give 'k appealing color to bacon_"ham and processed.me.at products =~ Dr: David-Baltimore,•who--shared this year's"i,iobel:.Prize-iri medicine•for discoveries concerning;_theinteractior::•between Sirnilarly,•Fountairtrsaid, the subcommittee raised.early coi ing sfter' contraceptive. and sheep-feed topromoteweight-gain, and also u4ed asa:`moi excessive weight.to the 1973 upturn in cancer mortality. it is long-term trend that, he said, reflects the environtaental changgs -.-__: ~. ~:.:.;...

%.#ancer. ", ueam .. /- =~~~ .~ ; . ' - . _ Continued frora Page 1- of the lasthalfrentury, but that have been obscured by "the long latent period of cancer- 20, 30, evea 40 years.':_=" =-_ -.--_ • Baltimore, who is spending a sabbatical from Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Rockefeller University in New York, ~ said that we have et tA et "a ood handle on the thin s that: y g g g ,cause cancer.... - : In the case o€ cigarettes, he noted, an individual can decide-- u;1nel.ner to s`mo e and, by doing so, to enhance the rask_of cancer.r -But in the case of industrial chemicals,, asbestos, DES and • nitrates and nit-rites, it is up to society to decide whether to per- ; mit their use. : The figures on cancer mortality are assembled bythelYational , 'Center for Health Statistics, which reports them each month 1. ; On -Monday, after months of watching the death rate increase•- steadilyover that of 1974, Gilbert S: Goldhammer, a consultant to, ahe subcommittee, decided that the trend appeared to be firm enough to warrant notifying Fountain. In his Tuesday letter, Fountain told Rauscher he found the upswing "unusual," "disturbing" and "alarming." particularly because "cancer treatment has been steadily improved over the last decade with the result that many more lives have been save;i :and extended.•" : Of the 665,000 persons in who~r_ cancer is expected to be `d detected in 197a, about one out of three -Z?#,000 - is expected to •survive at least five years, copmpared with one in five irr the - 19303. The number of cancer deaths expected in 1975 is 365,000.