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The coroner recorded a verdict that he died from the industrial disease mesothelioma, an asbestos-related cancer.
The fibres stick in lung tissue, causing fatal diseases such as asbestosis and mesothelioma, both rare and aggressive forms of cancer.
Periodic health surveillance for lung cancer or mesothelioma is not recommended.
He said ‘There is an equivocal association between mesothelioma and asbestos exposure.’
However, some individuals with only brief exposures have developed mesothelioma.
It was only seven months earlier that the asbestos cancer, mesothelioma, had been diagnosed.
At least 3500 people in Great Britain die each year from mesothelioma and asbestos related lung cancer as a result of past exposure to asbestos.
Such asbestos-related diseases include mesothelioma, a terminal cancer of the lining of the lungs.
At the age of 58, he has the incurable asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma and could have only months left to live.
SV40 does not have a role in the majority of malignant mesotheliomas - a cancer associated with exposure to asbestos - according to a study in this month's Cancer Research.
Malignant mesothelioma is an uncommon neoplasm yet it is the most common primary malignancy of the pleura.
By the age of 48 he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, nicknamed asbestos cancer, and died five years later at his home in Lanhill View.
Then, there's the fact that not every mesothelioma is caused by asbestos.
And as yet there is no cure for mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung lining caused by asbestos.
Therefore, the existence of childhood mesothelioma may be one reason why researchers do not attribute all mesotheliomas to asbestos exposure.
About 90% of deaths due to mesothelioma are due to exposure to asbestos in unmonitored settings.
His solicitors said he was in good health until diagnosed in December 2002 with mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure.
Conversely, there are few risk factors other than asbestos exposure for mesothelioma.
In Jameson, an employee contracted mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos at work.
Now, of course, it is well known that it can cause asbestosis or mesothelioma, a malignant tumour of the lung lining caused by inhaling asbestos fibres.