Asbestos And Lung Cancer
Asbestos And Lung Cancer Disease
Mesothelioma Asbestos Lung Cancer
Long time before the mesothelioma disease is known, by the late 19th century, many doctors were already making a connection between pulmonary diseases and exposure to asbestos experienced. A few decades later, they issued asbestosis term for disease that caused by inhalation and or swallow the certain amount of asbestos fiber. With simple explanation, it could assume that asbestos and lung cancer has a cause-consquence connection.
Asbestos is a group of minerals that occur naturally as bundles of fibers which can be separated into thin threads. Asbestos has been widely used in many industrial products, including cement, brake linings, roof shingles, furnace, millboard, textured paints, flooring products, textiles, and insulation. Asbestos has a superior industrial advantage chemical and mechanical properties that are high heat and chemical resistance and non conductivity. Commercially products of asbestos are white asbestos (chrysotile), blue asbestos (crocidolite), brown fibers (amosite) and gray fibers (anthophyllite)
Million workers were exposed to asbestos when they’re working in factories, mills and other industrial occupations. Although people knew asbestos could cause a deadly lung cancer disease, mostly people are unaware exposed to this deadly mineral because asbestos fibers are invisible, tasteless and odorless. Beside asbestos and lung cancer or mesothelioma, inhaling asbestos fibers is also associated to other types of cancer and illness.
Asbestos fibers remain in the body and easily penetrate body tissues and may deposit themselves in airways and in the lung tissue. Once the fibers are lodged in the body, they will cause inflammation which may result cancerous tumors. When inhaled asbestos fibers lodged themselves in the pleural lining of the lungs, it called lung cancer. Asbestos and lung cancer or pleural mesothelioma is the most common of malignant mesothelioma disease. The other forms of mesothelioma are peritoneal mesothelioma when cancer develops in the lining of the abdominal cavity, pericardial mesothelioma when cancer develops in the lining of the heart or pericardium and testicular mesothelioma when cancer develops in the tunica vaginalis of the testicles.