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2. Health impact of asbestos - Wikipedia

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   Figure B shows lungs with asbestos-related diseases, including pleural plaque, lung cancer, asbestosis, plaque on the diaphragm, and mesothelioma. Left-sided mesothelioma (seen on the right of the picture): chest CT. All types of asbestos fibers are known to cause serious health hazards in humans.

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. Asbestosis - Wikipedia

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   Murray indicated that fibrosis of the lungs caused by asbestos dust was a plausible cause of the patient's death. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] The death of English textile worker Nellie Kershaw in 1924 from pulmonary asbestosis was the first case to be described in medical literature, and the first published account of disease definitely attributed to ...

5. What You Need to Know About Prostate Cancer Treatments - AOL

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   The Most Common Prostate Cancer Treatments. TREATMENTS VARY, DEPENDING on individual cases of prostate cancer. If the cancer is caught early, many are treated “very effectively,” Dr. Barbieri ...

6. What to Know About Complementary Therapies for Prostate Cancer

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   “Two servings of fish per week after diagnosis was associated with a 17% lower risk of prostate cancer recurrence,” wrote the Prostate 8 team, citing a study in the journal Cancer Causes and ...

7. Mesothelioma - Wikipedia

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   Pleural contamination with asbestos or other mineral fibers has been shown to cause cancer. Long thin asbestos fibers (blue asbestos, amphibole fibers) are more potent carcinogens than "feathery fibers" (chrysotile or white asbestos fibers). [28] However, there is now evidence that smaller particles may be more dangerous than the larger fibers.