Asbestos has been used by automobile, construction, manufacturing, power, and chemical
industries for many years due to its particular properties, ie high tensile strength, non …

Malignant mesotheliomas are rare types of cancers that affect the mesothelial surfaces,
usually the pleura and peritoneum. They are associated with asbestos exposure, but due to …

Abstract The European Respiratory Society (ERS)/European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
(ESTS)/European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)/European Society for …

More than 40 years of evaluation have consistently confirmed the carcinogenicity of
asbestos in all of its forms. This notwithstanding, according to recent figures, the annual …

Epidemiological methods are essential for the discovery of cancer risks and prognostic
factors as well as for the evaluation of cancer prevention measures. In this review, we …

Objectives In Italy, asbestos has been extensively used from 1945 to 1992. We evaluated
the impact of exposure to asbestos on occurrence of malignant mesothelioma (MM) in the …

Even if the epidemic of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is still far from being over
worldwide, the health effects of regulations banning asbestos can be evaluated in the …

Background Malignant pleural mesothelioma is an almost always fatal tumour, for which
palliative platinum‐based chemotherapy is currently the standard treatment. Multimodal …

Since 1973 the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified asbestos as a
certain carcinogen, but today it is still used in several countries. To date, mesothelioma risk …

Simple Summary Asbestos consumption figures could be used to construct epidemiological
models to forecast the pleural mesothelioma mortality, although they are not frequently taken …