Mesothelioma Causes Prevention
Today you can see in this film prevention film director Juan Miguel Gutiérrez Guipuzcoa on the effects and losers of asbestos. On this account himself tells Juan Miguel: “Recently discovered by chance that our mother died of inhalation of asbestos dust. The factory that produced it was located a short distance from the house where we lived. The discovery was an emotional blow that led me to make a trip from the depths of my heart to the beaches of India where ships are dismantled today that no European wants to chop for fear that contain asbestos. ”
Asbestos is dangerous when dispersed in air in the form of tiny fibers invisible to the naked eye.
Breathing these asbestos fibers can cause one of three conditions:
asbestosis, a scarring of lung tissue
lung cancer
mesothelioma, a cancer of the pleura (double bags lubricated and smooth membrane containing the lungs) or the peritoneum (the smooth double membrane lining the abdominal cavity).
Asbestosis causes severe breathing difficulties and can even cause death.
Lung cancer is fatal in 95% of cases. Asbestosis can also degenerate in lung cancer. Mesothelioma is incurable and usually results in death within twelve to eighteen months after diagnosis.
It has been suggested that exposure to asbestos can cause cancer of the larynx or the gastrointestinal tract. It is suspected that the ingestion of asbestos (this, for example, contaminated drinking water) can cause gastrointestinal cancer and a study, at least, has demonstrated the increasing risk of unusually high concentrations of ingested asbestos in drinking water. However, these suggestions have not been sufficiently supported by evidence from relevant studies.
Exposure to asbestos can also cause pleural plaques. Pleural plaques are isolated thickening, fibrous or partially calcified, which occur on the surface of the pleura and can be detected by x-ray or computed tomography (CT). Pleural plaques are not malignant and usually do not alter pulmonary function.
In Europe there are many thousands of deaths annually as a result of asbestos-related diseases. At the conference on Asbestos 2003 (organized by the Committee of Senior Labour Inspectors from the European Commission), we calculated the total number of annual deaths caused by asbestos in seven European countries (UK, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Poland and Estonia) could amount to 15 000.
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