FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Committee's Approach to Its Charge and Methods Used in Evaluation -- 3 Background Information on Asbestos -- 4 Exposure and Disposition -- 5 Biological Aspects of Asbestos-Related Diseases -- 6 Description of Epidemiologic Studies Included in Evidentiary Dataset -- 7 Pharyngeal Cancer and Asbestos -- 8 Laryngeal Cancer and Asbestos -- 9 Esophageal Cancer and Asbestos -- 10 Stomach Cancer and Asbestos -- 11 Colorectal Cancer and Asbestos -- 12 Summary and Recommendations -- APPENDIXES -- APPENDIX A Agendas of Public Meetings Held by the Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects -- APPENDIX B Lineage and Design Properties of Studies on Cohorts Informative for Selected Cancers -- APPENDIX C Description of Case-Control Studies of All Selected Cancers as Related to Exposure to Asbestos -- APPENDIX D Cohort Results Tables -- APPENDIX E Case-Control Results Tables -- APPENDIX F Initial Analyses of Available Data Concerning Cancers of Colon and/or Rectum and Asbestos Exposure -- APPENDIX G Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects.