Jul 21, 2008

Mesothelioma exposure

Asbestos manufacturers as early as the 1970s ago to understand exposure to asbestos could lead to the risk of mesothelioma cancer, but they will this information as trade secrets to strictly control. The first exposure to asbestos on the reports in the mid-1960s. Even today, asbestos manufacturers are still long as possible hide the fact that the asbestos risk.

People long-term exposure to asbestos in the environment caused by inhaling asbestos mesothelioma of the risk to increase dramatically, but recent study found that even very short-term exposure to asbestos can also lead to such disease is usually glass, mesothelioma need 20 to 40 years after Show symptoms, people usually aged between 50 to 70 were diagnosed with this disease and Bolivia

Although the reported rate in the past 20 years has increased, mesothelioma is still a relatively rare cancer. The United States each year there are about 2,000 new mesothelioma was diagnosed cases.

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