Cancer Risk Passes to Kin of Asbestos Workers Cancer Risk Passes to Kin of Asbestos Workers Household Contact Asbestos Exposure Jon / Wednesday, September 25, 1974 8969 Unto the second generation, deadly asbestos fibers are now destroying the lungs of children of Paterson area asbestos workers of the 1940s, most of whom already have succumbed or are incapacitated from lung cancers and related diseases. Read more