| Exposure to hazardous asbestos has been a problem | | | | exposures) was evaluated. Excess mortality due to |
| for over a century. The common form of exposure | | | | cancer of the stomach (males), pancreas (females), |
| typically came from the workplace. However, that has | | | | and lung (males) was observed in the two |
| changed as asbestos has been found in the water | | | | municipalities with known high exposures. The |
| supplies of various municipalities. One interesting study | | | | excesses among males have been due to |
| is called, âCancer mortality in relation to | | | | occupational exposure to asbestos. The absence of |
| asbestos in municipal water supplies.â By | | | | excess mortality due to pancreatic cancer among |
| Wigle DT - Arch Environ Health. 1977 | | | | males suggested that the excess among females |
| Jul-Aug;32(4):185-190. Here is an excerpt: | | | | was not due to waterborne asbestos. The study |
| âAbstract - The mortality experience of | | | | therefore did not reveal evidence of excess cancer |
| twenty-two municipalities in Quebec grouped by | | | | mortality that could be attributed to exposure to |
| evidence of exposure to asbestos fibers in water | | | | asbestos in drinking water. |
| supplies (known high, possible high, and probable low | | | | |