Global use of asbestos - legitimate and illegitimate issues

BACKGROUND: Exposure to asbestos causes non-malignant and malignant diseases including asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma. The modern history of such diseases goes back more than a century. MAIN TEXT: While much is known about the ability of asbestos to cause disease, the carcinogenic mechani...

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Autor principal: Frank, Arthur L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7294762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32549902
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-020-00267-y
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description BACKGROUND: Exposure to asbestos causes non-malignant and malignant diseases including asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma. The modern history of such diseases goes back more than a century. MAIN TEXT: While much is known about the ability of asbestos to cause disease, the carcinogenic mechanism is not yet understood. Continuing legitimate scientific questions include such issues as potential differential toxicity and carcinogenicity of different fiber types. Illegitimate issues include the supposed “safe” use of asbestos, and the chrysotile hypothesis. CONCLUSION: Asbestos disease issues are highly politicized and vested economic interests perpetuate false issues regarding the hazards of asbestos.
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spelling pubmed-72947622020-06-16 Global use of asbestos - legitimate and illegitimate issues Frank, Arthur L. J Occup Med Toxicol Review BACKGROUND: Exposure to asbestos causes non-malignant and malignant diseases including asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma. The modern history of such diseases goes back more than a century. MAIN TEXT: While much is known about the ability of asbestos to cause disease, the carcinogenic mechanism is not yet understood. Continuing legitimate scientific questions include such issues as potential differential toxicity and carcinogenicity of different fiber types. Illegitimate issues include the supposed “safe” use of asbestos, and the chrysotile hypothesis. CONCLUSION: Asbestos disease issues are highly politicized and vested economic interests perpetuate false issues regarding the hazards of asbestos. BioMed Central 2020-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7294762/ /pubmed/32549902 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-020-00267-y Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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