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  2. Health impact of asbestos - Wikipedia

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    The most common diseases associated with chronic exposure to asbestos are asbestosis and mesothelioma. [4] According to OSHA, [11] "there is no 'safe' level of asbestos exposure for any type of asbestos fiber. [12] [13] Asbestos exposures as short in duration as a few days have caused mesothelioma in humans. Every occupational exposure to ...

  3. Asbestos-related diseases - Wikipedia

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    Asbestos can cause lung cancer that is identical to lung cancer from other causes. Exposure to asbestos is associated with all major histological types of lung carcinoma (adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, large-cell carcinoma and small-cell carcinoma). The latency period between exposure and development of lung cancer is 20 to 30 years.

  4. Occupational lung disease - Wikipedia

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    Asbestos exposure can also cause pleural effusion, diffuse pleural fibrosis, pleural plaques, and non-mesothelioma lung cancer. Smoking greatly increases the lung cancer risk of asbestos exposure. [3] Residents and workers of asbestos mining centers such as the town of Asbest, Russia experience dangerous exposure to asbestos and asbestos dust. [9]

  5. EPA to ban last form of asbestos used in US - AOL

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    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday finalized a rule that would ban using and importing cancer-causing asbestos, a material still used in some vehicles and in some industrial ...

  6. Asbestos victims in Montana want Buffett's railroad company ...

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    An attorney for two people who died of a rare lung cancer argued on Monday for a jury to hold BNSF Railway responsible for pollution in a small Montana town near the U.S.-Canada border where ...

  7. Asbestosis - Wikipedia

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    White asbestos fibers identified in room air analysis, magnified 5000 times using a scanning electron microscope. The cause of asbestosis is the inhalation of microscopic asbestos mineral fibers suspended in the air. [17] In the 1930s, E. R. A. Merewether found that greater exposure resulted in greater risk. [18]