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A Clinical Guide to Occupational and Environmental Lung DiseasesUnanswered Questions Regarding Asbestos Exposure: Concerns for the Next Generation

A Clinical Guide to Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases: Unanswered Questions Regarding... [Despite the numerous manuscripts published on the respiratory health effects of asbestos over the past 50 years, there are a number of clinically relevant issues that remain unresolved. In this report, the author addresses aspects of pleural disease, interstitial lung disease, lung cancer, and mesothelioma attributable to asbestos exposures and attempts to present reasonable evidence for his conclusions. In general, the worldwide use of asbestos has lessened over time and one is buoyed by the number of countries that have “banned” asbestos. Yet, this is not clearly the case in all countries. This worldwide initiative to “ban” asbestos leads one to be optimistic that the burden of illness that we recognize at present and which is the result of exposures of past generations will be lessened in the next generations.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Clinical Guide to Occupational and Environmental Lung DiseasesUnanswered Questions Regarding Asbestos Exposure: Concerns for the Next Generation

Part of the Respiratory Medicine Book Series
Editors: Huang, Yuh-Chin T.; Ghio, Andrew J.; Maier, Lisa A.
Banks, Daniel E.
Springer Journals — Sep 19, 2012
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Publisher
Humana Press
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012
ISBN
978-1-62703-148-6
Pages
153 –169
DOI
10.1007/978-1-62703-149-3_8
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Abstract

[Despite the numerous manuscripts published on the respiratory health effects of asbestos over the past 50 years, there are a number of clinically relevant issues that remain unresolved. In this report, the author addresses aspects of pleural disease, interstitial lung disease, lung cancer, and mesothelioma attributable to asbestos exposures and attempts to present reasonable evidence for his conclusions. In general, the worldwide use of asbestos has lessened over time and one is buoyed by the number of countries that have “banned” asbestos. Yet, this is not clearly the case in all countries. This worldwide initiative to “ban” asbestos leads one to be optimistic that the burden of illness that we recognize at present and which is the result of exposures of past generations will be lessened in the next generations.]

Published: Sep 19, 2012

Keywords: Asbestos; Unanswered questions; Asbestosis; Mesothelioma; Pleural plaques; Pleural thickening

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