Impact of an asbestos cement factory on mesothelioma incidence: global assessment of effects of occupational, familial, and environmental exposure

C Mensi, L Riboldi, S De Matteis, PA Bertazzi… - Environment …, 2015 - Elsevier
Few studies have examined the incidence of malignant mesothelioma (MM) associated with
distinct sources of asbestos exposure (occupational, familial, or environmental). We …

Malignant mesothelioma due to non-occupational asbestos exposure from the Italian national surveillance system (ReNaM): epidemiology and public health issues

A Marinaccio, A Binazzi, M Bonafede… - Occupational and …, 2015 - oem.bmj.com
Introduction Italy produced and imported a large amount of raw asbestos, up to the ban in
1992, with a peak in the period between 1976 and 1980 at about 160 000 tons/year. The …

Inference on germline BAP1 mutations and asbestos exposure from the analysis of familial and sporadic mesothelioma in a high‐risk area

M Betti, E Casalone, D Ferrante… - Genes …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Inherited loss‐of‐function mutations in the BAP1 oncosuppressor gene are responsible for
an inherited syndrome with predisposition to malignant mesothelioma (MM), uveal and …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of an asbestos cement factory on mesothelioma incidence in a community in Italy

D Consonni, S De Matteis, B Dallari, AC Pesatori… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Broni is a small town (9000 inhabitants) in the province of Pavia, Lombardy,
north-west Italy, where the second largest Italian asbestos cement factory (Fibronit) was in …

Evaluation of deposition and clearance of asbestos (detected by SEM-EDS) in lungs of deceased subjects environmentally and/or occupationally exposed in Broni …

SD Visonà, S Capella, S Bodini, P Borrelli… - Frontiers in Public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biodurability is one of the main determinants of asbestos hazardousness for human health.
Very little is known about the actual persistence of asbestos in lungs and its clearance, nor …

A postmortem case control study of asbestos burden in lungs of malignant mesothelioma cases

SD Visonà, B Bertoglio, C Favaron, S Capella… - Journal of Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Background Asbestos lung content is regarded as the most reliable tool for causal attribution
of malignant mesothelioma (MM) to previous asbestos exposures. However, there is a lack …

Impact of asbestos on public health: a retrospective study on a series of subjects with occupational and non-occupational exposure to asbestos during the activity of …

SD Visonà, S Villani, F Manzoni… - Journal of public …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The goal of this study is to understand more about the role of asbestos in causing human
diseases, first of all mesothelioma, by investigating a large series of deaths due to asbestos …

The Italian experience in the development of mesothelioma registries: a pathway for other countries to address the negative legacy of asbestos

C Magnani, C Mensi, A Binazzi, D Marsili… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Asbestos (all forms, including chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, tremolite, actinolite, and
anthophyllite) is carcinogenic to humans and causally associated with mesothelioma and …

Inorganic fiber lung burden in subjects with occupational and/or anthropogenic environmental asbestos exposure in broni (Pavia, northern italy): An sem-eds study on …

SD Visonà, S Capella, S Bodini, P Borrelli… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Increased mortality due to malignant mesothelioma has been demonstrated by several
epidemiologic studies in the area around Broni (a small town in Lombardy, northern Italy) …

[HTML][HTML] Asbestos burden in lungs of non-occupationally exposed women from Broni (Pavia, Italy): a postmortem SEM-EDS study

SD Visonà, S Capella, P Borrelli, S Villani… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background In Italy the incidence of malignant mesothelioma (MM) among women is
remarkably high, due to the several contexts in which women had been exposed to …