Asbestos

One of Lung Cancer Cause as well as Mesothelioma Risk Factor

Asbestos have been used for a long time ago, even hundred years ago and it still used nowadays. Doesn’t matter what time asbestos use and for any reason, it also comes with the risk. The risk that asbestos have is very horrible, it comes with very dangerous disease. The diseases that asbestos can make due to a long time exposure are lung cancer, asbestosis, as well as the most dangerous among all is mesothelioma, this disease can be called asbestos cancer.

Asbestos exist in many parts of our life, from building to car. If its exposure combined with smoking it will also leads to lung cancer. As you know, in just UK asbestos counts 3% of lung cancer death. In most case of lung cancer based on asbestos, it often has combined effect with tobacco smoking, and it need attention more. In this case, the synergy of tobacco smoking with asbestos, and other matter are in extensively studied. In different studies the interaction between asbestos and tobacco smoke for lung cancer induction varies from more than additive to supra-multiplicative, but the relationship approximates a multiplicative model for insulation workers.

In industrialized country, asbestos exposure is giving 4% to 12% of all lung cancer cases. The death number from asbestos exposure in the UK in 1929 to 1996 was reaching 18,000 for mesothelioma and 1,800 for lung cancer. . In a study of cancer mortality among about 5 100 asbestos factory workers in east London followed for over 30 years since first exposure10, the excess lung cancer to mesothelioma ratio was 1.55:1.