Mar 25, 2018 · Asbestos is an environmental carcinogen, and asbestos-related diseases are a global-scale public health issue. We report three cases (one male and two s) of pleural malignant mesothelioma (PMM) caused by environmental asbestos exposure reported by the Apulia Regional Operating Centre (COR) to the National Mesothelioma Registry (ReNaM).
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Baujon L., Thomazo N. Atmospheric emissions of asbestos fibres in the vicinity of asbestos-cement building products [Détermination des concentrations des fibres d'amiante dans l'atmosphère au voisinage de construction en amiante-ciment], Laboratoire d'hygiène et de contrôle des fibres minérales, Paris, Rapport 93.189, 1993.
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Clinical, radiologic, pathologic, and epidemiologic data on 32 patients with diffuse malignant mesothelioma (DMM) diagnosed between 1968 and 1984 at a 427-bed community hospital in Berwyn, III, were reviewed. Independent pathologists, review of light microscopy, supported by
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The "Helsinki Criteria" were put forward as "state-of-the-art" criteria for the diagnosis and attribution of certain lung and pleural disorders to asbestos exposure by a group which convened in Helsinki in 1997, and were further updated in 2004.
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Apr 15, 2015 · Asbestos cement manufacturing industries and shipbuilding and repair facilities represented the main sources of asbestos exposure, but a major contribution to asbestos exposure was also provided by sectors with no direct use of asbestos, such as non-asbestos textile industries, metal engineering and construction.
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Summary points People exposed to asbestos often develop lung disease in later life; manifestations include benign, malignant, or diffuse interstitial lung disease. This evidence based review covers who is considered to be at risk, different ways that exposure to asbestos affect the lung, and matters relating to compensation. Because many doctors in primary and secondary care Get Price
The term, asbestos, refers to a family of fibrous hydrous minerals that possess unique tensile strength and thermal and chemical stability. Due to the unique thermal stability of asbestos, products containing asbestos have been widely used in a variety of industries, particularly in shipbuilding. 1 x 1 Selikoff, IJ, Lilis, R, and Nicholson, WJ.
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This review examines the hypothesis that excess lung cancer risk in worker cohorts exposed to asbestos occurs only among those with asbestosis. The adequately designed studies in the literature support
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[]business as it had always done (until the asbestos products were discontinued in 1974). Resp't Pfizer Inc.'s Suppl. Br. at 4. Quigley operated the facility where Insulag and Panelag were manufactured and purchased the raw materials for both products
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Aug 23, 2009 · As a result, sepiolite is not regulated in the same manner as asbestos and is being more frequently encountered as a chrysotile asbestos substitute in products. Sepiolite was recently encountered as an asbestos substitute during analysis of gaskets manufactured in China for export to the United States.
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Role of Asbestos Bodies Histologic evidence of asbestos inhalation is provided by the identification of asbestos bodies either lying freely in the air spaces or embedded in the interstitial fibrosis. Asbestos bodies are distinguished from other ferruginous bodies by their thin, transparent core. Two or more asbestos bodies per square centimeter of a 5-μm-thick lung section, in combination
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Gibbs and Pooley, presenting data largely from U.K. end products users, reported arithmetic mean based ratios of the fiber concentrations found in workers with asbestosis compared with pleural mesothelioma of about 201 for crocidolite and 4.51 for amosite (Table 2), whereas Churg and Vedal, presenting data as geometric means, found a ratio
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Asbestos and developing countries . Since the seventies, due to the increasing scientific evidence of cancer risk, strong restrictions to asbestos have been adopted in developed nations, ranging for lower exposure limits, amphiboles ban, restriction of asbestos containing products and total ban.
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[]of asbestos in 1973, and attempted to ban most asbestos-containing products in 1989 through the Toxic Substances Control Act, the ban was overturned in 1991 (23). To this day, the US does not have a full nationwide ban on asbestos. However there are many laws regulating the use of asbestos at the federal, state, and local level (24). In Europe,
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Despite the available information on cancer risk, asbestos is used in large areas in the world, mostly in the production of asbestos cement. Moreover, questions are raised regarding the shape of the dose response relation, the relation with time since exposure and the association with neoplasms in various organs. We conducted a study on the relationship between cumulative asbestos exposure and
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Asbestiform Minerals and Human Health. Asbestos is a commercial-industrial term with a long history, and is not a mineralogical definition. ''Asbestos'' in the latter half of the 20th century became widely used in regulatory language to refer to well developed, long, thin particles (fibers or fibrils) and fiber bundles of specific mineral compositions, which have fulfilled particular
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In 1991, a prospective longitudinal study of workers employed in the manufacture of asbestos cement products found that the excess risk of lung cancer was limited to those workers who had radiographic evidence of asbestosis.7 A subsequent review of the literature on this subject, Environ Health Perspect 1994. 102(suppl 5). 261
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As with other forms of asbestos, health effects of concern from exposure to inhaled tremolite asbestos are lung cancer, mesothelioma, and nonmalignant lung and pleural disorders. Evidence in humans comes from epidemiologic studies of tremolite asbestos-exposed groups of
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Benign asbestos effusion was defined by (1) exposure to asbestos, (2) confirmation by roentgenograms or thoracenteses, (3) no other disease related to pleural effusion, and (4) no malignant tumor within three years. There were 34 benign effusions among 1,135 exposed workers compared with no
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