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H J Woitowitz

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Pleural mesothelioma and household asbestos exposure.

This article discusses the development of asbestos-induced malignant mesotheliomas after non-occupational environmental exposure to asbestos through contact with occupationally exposed household members. In our policlinic, we have seen six fatal pleural mesothelioma cases (five wives and one son of asbestos-industry workers) with no history of occupational asbestos exposure. In five women, a causal relation was established between the fatal disease and inhalation of asbestos fibers while cleaning the contaminated work-clothes and shoes of their husbands at home. The son had also been exposed to asbestos throughout his childhood during daily visits with his father at the workplace.

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Environmental exposure to tremolite asbestos: pleural mesothelioma in two Turkish workers in Germany.

This report concerns two Turkish immigrant workers, aged 50 and 59, who developed histologically confirmed diffuse malignant mesothelioma in the absence of obvious occupational exposure to asbestos in Germany. Both patients had spent their childhood in central Anatolia, Turkey, where the presence of tremolite asbestos in the environment has been described. In both patients, the lung-dust burden showed a high concentration of amphibole fibers (186 x 10(6) resp. 59 x 10(6) per gram dry tissue), mainly classified as actionolite/tremolite fibers in scanning transmission electron microscopy. In both patients, the disease was thus attributed to early environmental exposure to tremolite asbestos.

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Recent data on cancer due to asbestos in Germany.

The Authors evaluate the risk of lung cancer and mesothelioma among asbestos workers in Germany. 3,988 workers (3,372 male and 616 female) were included in the study, which took into consideration the branch of the asbestos industry in which they had worked, the duration of their employment and also their smoking habits. At the end of the 12 year follow-up, 3,315 workers were alive and 673 dead. The analysis of cause of death showed an increased risk of dying from lung cancer and pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma, in men as well as in women. The risk was shown to be greatest among workers in the asbestos textile industry and among insulators. A probable multiplicative effect of asbestos exposure and smoking on lung cancer causation was noted.

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