Mesothelioma is a rare cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Once exposed to the toxic mineral, symptoms can take as long as 20 to 50 years to arise and the mesothelioma life expectancy of a patient is often very poor. …
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Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is contracted usually from over-exposure of asbestos. Long years usually pass before the exposed person begins showing signs, which makes remedy and compensation very challenging.
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Asbestos exposure is the primary cause of malignant mesothelioma cancer. Following repeated exposure to the toxic mineral, symptoms can take as long as 20 to 50 years to arise and a patient’s life expectancy is often very poor since …
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Thanks K, I wasn’t Sure Where to Go.
Anreuro, I Heard this Long Ago, With the Burning of Rice Fields in Central Ca., I Heard that Problem was Ultimately Found to Be From the Release of Silicon, Oxidized Forms, Into the Atmosphere, Not Bagasosis (Sp?).
Best reply by Kynysca:
Hopefully, Spreedog answers this Q 
. Maybe he (or, someone else) will have a much better answer. But, I’ll give this a shot…
I found a 1997, where cohorts of asbestos sprayers and silicosis patients were tracked for incidence of cancer. Total cancer, lung cancer, and mesothelioma were dependent/criterion variables (< -not familiar with the statistics utilized), from what I saw. I realize this research is a little dated. There is no control group, but just looks like a report on incidence, but, still, not very much control to attribute results to isolated effects. Anyway, from what I read, standardized incidence ratios indicated that asbestos sprayers had a significantly higher incidence in the development of mesothelioma. Silicosis patients only had significantly higher incidence ratios for all sites (i.e., total cancer risk). Check out the abstract for yourself:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9131223?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
Interesting little bits to do with silicosis and asbestos-related diseases. More recent, but not quite relevant to your Q: Apparently, silicosis and asbestos-related diseases not only differ in their causative materials (obviously, really), but also in terms of complications; autoimmune disorders being common in silicosis and tumors in asbestos-related diseases. Asbestos-related disease patients also show restricted overpresentation of TcR-Vbeta without clonal expansion, whereas silicosis patients reveal significant overpresentation of TcR-Vbeta 7.2. Basically, it may be concluded, here, that there are superantigenic effects associated with asbestos and dysregulation of autoimmunity-inducing effects of silica. I include these aforementioned bits, for the sake of interest, really, but perhaps you may glean something related to your reasoning/background to do with asking the Q. Here is the relevant abstract:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17166401?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
EDIT: Below, scroll down to the graph entitled, "CDC asbestosis vs silicosis deaths" associated with "Attachment 1". It's not a very clear graph. Pesky. But, on quick skim, it looks like a comparison of those with either asbestosis or silicosis who expired due to malignant mesothelioma, from 1980 thru 2002. Looks like, asbestosis on the rise and a bigger killer (?):
http://www.actuary.org/pdf/casualty/asbestos_feb06.pdf
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Is the Incidence of Mesothelioma Similar Between Asbestosis and Silicosis?
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The other day, I was doing electrical work at a an old church. I was rewiring in the ceiling, where there were broken tiles and lots of debris. In my 8 hours of work there, I can say positively that a while bunch of debris landed on my head, face, and body, and I do know that a lot of it got into my mouth. It wasn’t until I was about 95% done with the job that a co-worker told me that I should not have been doing that without a respirator, due to the fact that there was 1% asbestos in the tiles. I am very new at the job, and I wasn’t aware of any of this. Am I at a high risk of developing lung problems in the future? If so, how long will it be before I notice any effects?
Best reply by Mr. Knowitall:
I would say that your risk is probably slightly greater than before. But still not great. In the old days when nobody knew how dangerous asbestos was, people worked with the stuff all their lives, they breathed it in for 30 or 40 years. And of those, maybe 1 or 2 percent got mesothelioma.
So I wouldn’t let worrying about it spoil the rest of my life. 8^) And I’d use the respirator from now on.
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Filed under Mesothelioma by on Jul 14th, 2007.
Stage 1…how long: Stage 2…how long; Stage 3…how long; Stage 4…how long?
Best reply by jennie r:
I looked this up and it said the average life span is one year but, I couldn’t find anything on the length of each stage. I’m sorry you even have to ask this question.
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What is life expectancy of someone with malignant mesothelioma?
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