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• Most of the information on health effects comes from studies of workers

  exposed regularly to high levels of asbestos. In occupational settings

  all forms of asbestos

  have been shown to cause asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma. Asbestosis

  is a noncancerous lung disease involving diffuse fibrotic scarring of the

  lungs. Persons with asbestosis can experience progressive shortness of

  breath. Lung

  cancer is associated with asbestos exposures; cigarette smoking and asbestos

  exposure multiply the risk of lung cancer beyond that caused by exposure

  to either of these materials separately. Mesothelioma is an incurable cancer

  of the lining

  of the chest cavity and abdomen.
  

• People have been exposed to asbestos by living with asbestos workers or

  living in the vicinity of asbestos mines and factories. People exposed to

  asbestos in

  such non-occupational settings have also had asbestos-related diseases including

  cancer. While most asbestos-associated cancers are related to the intensity

  and duration of exposure, reports in medical journals have linked some mesotheliomas

  to short exposure periods, on the order of months. Even in these cases, however,

  usually many years (20 years or more) elapse between the time of initial

  exposure

  to asbestos and the development of mesothelioma. In addition, there....[MORE]

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1. Stage Information

Patients with stage I disease have a significantly better prognosis

than those

with more advanced stages. However, because of the relative rarity of this

disease, exact survival information based upon stage is limited. A proposed

staging system based upon thoracic surgery principles and clinical data is

shown below. It is a modif ication of the older

system proposed by Butchart

et al. Other staging systems that have been employed, including a proposed

new international TNM staging system, are summarized by the International

Mesothelioma Interest Group.

• Stage I: Disease confined within the capsule of the

  parietal pleura:
  

  ipsilateral pleura, lung, pericardium, and diaphragm.

• Stage II: All of stage I with positive intrathoracic

  (N1 or N2) lymph nodes.

• Stage III: Local extension of disease into the following:

  chest wall or
  

  mediastinum; heart or through the diaphragm, peritoneum; with or without
  

  extrathoracic or contralateral (N3) lymph node involvement.

• Stage IV: Distant metastatic disease.

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Deaths from mesothelioma, an asbestos-related lung cancer, will peak within ten years in the UK and then fall to a much lower level, according to new figures published in this week's British Journal of Cancer. Mesothelioma is a type of cancer in the lining of the lungs or the lining ...

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