What is your role in making the connection and monitoring the disease?

After analyzing some of the problems in studying environmental diseases, the author makes several pertinent recommendations for involvement by pathologists in this area. This article is based on a CAP seminar, held during the 1983 CAP/ASCP Spring Meeting, which was developed by the CAP Committee on Environmental and Iatrogenic Pathology. Dr Alpert, a member of the committee, was director of the seminar. Other members of the committee are: Jerome I. Kleinerman, MD, chairman; Melvin Greenblatt, MD; Jerrold L. Abraham, MD; Ralph R. Edminster, MD; and Alvin M. Ring, MD.