John E. Craighead
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195178692
- eISBN:
- 9780199864591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178692.003.0003
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter summarizes the current understanding of the health risks associated with employment in various industries where exposure is alleged to occur. Topics discussed include textile mill ...
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This chapter summarizes the current understanding of the health risks associated with employment in various industries where exposure is alleged to occur. Topics discussed include textile mill workers, shipbuilders and navy/merchant marine personnel, insulators, plumbers and pipe fitters, construction workers, building interior workmen, floor tile and linoleum installers and removers, asbestos-cement manufacturers and end-product users, occupants of public and commercial buildings, electricians, automotive mechanics, railroad workers, and thermoelectric power and chemical plant workers.Less
This chapter summarizes the current understanding of the health risks associated with employment in various industries where exposure is alleged to occur. Topics discussed include textile mill workers, shipbuilders and navy/merchant marine personnel, insulators, plumbers and pipe fitters, construction workers, building interior workmen, floor tile and linoleum installers and removers, asbestos-cement manufacturers and end-product users, occupants of public and commercial buildings, electricians, automotive mechanics, railroad workers, and thermoelectric power and chemical plant workers.
Graham W. Gibbs and Geoffrey Berry
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195178692
- eISBN:
- 9780199864591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178692.003.0004
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter considers the magnitudes of risk for the development of asbestosis, malignant mesothelioma (MM), and lung cancer (LC) resulting from exposure to different airborne concentrations of ...
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This chapter considers the magnitudes of risk for the development of asbestosis, malignant mesothelioma (MM), and lung cancer (LC) resulting from exposure to different airborne concentrations of asbestos. Information on risk is obtained from epidemiological studies. The risk analysis requires three components: (i) the level of exposure, (ii) cases that have occurred, and (iii) factors that might confound or modify the exposure-response relationship.Less
This chapter considers the magnitudes of risk for the development of asbestosis, malignant mesothelioma (MM), and lung cancer (LC) resulting from exposure to different airborne concentrations of asbestos. Information on risk is obtained from epidemiological studies. The risk analysis requires three components: (i) the level of exposure, (ii) cases that have occurred, and (iii) factors that might confound or modify the exposure-response relationship.
Richard Attanoos
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195178692
- eISBN:
- 9780199864591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178692.003.0007
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter reviews the history of asbestos-related lung cancer (LC) together with the prevailing theories of lung carcinogenesis in asbestos-exposed subjects. The synergism between tobacco smoke ...
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This chapter reviews the history of asbestos-related lung cancer (LC) together with the prevailing theories of lung carcinogenesis in asbestos-exposed subjects. The synergism between tobacco smoke and asbestos, clinical, pathological, and mineralogical evidence for ascription of LC to asbestos exposure is assessed together with a review of the recent consensus document, the so-called “Helsinki criteria.”.Less
This chapter reviews the history of asbestos-related lung cancer (LC) together with the prevailing theories of lung carcinogenesis in asbestos-exposed subjects. The synergism between tobacco smoke and asbestos, clinical, pathological, and mineralogical evidence for ascription of LC to asbestos exposure is assessed together with a review of the recent consensus document, the so-called “Helsinki criteria.”.
Kevin Leahy
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195178692
- eISBN:
- 9780199864591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178692.003.0015
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter discusses the historical development of asbestos litigation and the current state of relevant legal affairs in the United States. Depending on one's vantage point, the history of ...
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This chapter discusses the historical development of asbestos litigation and the current state of relevant legal affairs in the United States. Depending on one's vantage point, the history of asbestos-related lawsuits reveals either a series of unwitting failures to understand the gravity of the problem, or a knowing disregard and avoidance of the health concerns faced by workers and their families. Whether it is lack of knowledge or reckless disregard, responsibility for fault has become the paramount issue for assigning blame during American trials involving asbestos exposure and disease.Less
This chapter discusses the historical development of asbestos litigation and the current state of relevant legal affairs in the United States. Depending on one's vantage point, the history of asbestos-related lawsuits reveals either a series of unwitting failures to understand the gravity of the problem, or a knowing disregard and avoidance of the health concerns faced by workers and their families. Whether it is lack of knowledge or reckless disregard, responsibility for fault has become the paramount issue for assigning blame during American trials involving asbestos exposure and disease.
Allen R. Gibbs and John E. Craighead
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195178692
- eISBN:
- 9780199864591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178692.003.0008
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter focuses on malignant mesothelioma (MM) and other mesothelial lesions and conditions that mimic MM. MM is now, alongside lung cancer, the most important occupational cancer among ...
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This chapter focuses on malignant mesothelioma (MM) and other mesothelial lesions and conditions that mimic MM. MM is now, alongside lung cancer, the most important occupational cancer among industrial populations worldwide. MM is a diffuse tumor that arises in the serosal surfaces of the pleura, peritoneum, pericardium, ovary, and tunica vaginalis of the testis. The most frequent location is the pleura followed by the peritoneum. As a result of serosal effusion and diffuse serosal thickening by tumor, patients with pleural tumors typically present with chest pain and shortness of breath and abdominal pain with distension in the peritoneal cases.Less
This chapter focuses on malignant mesothelioma (MM) and other mesothelial lesions and conditions that mimic MM. MM is now, alongside lung cancer, the most important occupational cancer among industrial populations worldwide. MM is a diffuse tumor that arises in the serosal surfaces of the pleura, peritoneum, pericardium, ovary, and tunica vaginalis of the testis. The most frequent location is the pleura followed by the peritoneum. As a result of serosal effusion and diffuse serosal thickening by tumor, patients with pleural tumors typically present with chest pain and shortness of breath and abdominal pain with distension in the peritoneal cases.
David Weill
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195178692
- eISBN:
- 9780199864591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178692.003.0010
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter reviews the clinical manifestations of asbestos-associated lung problems, with particular emphasis on the milder forms of the diseases, which are now more common. Topics discussed ...
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This chapter reviews the clinical manifestations of asbestos-associated lung problems, with particular emphasis on the milder forms of the diseases, which are now more common. Topics discussed include lung parenchymal disease, malignant mesothelioma, and benign asbestos-associated pleural diseases.Less
This chapter reviews the clinical manifestations of asbestos-associated lung problems, with particular emphasis on the milder forms of the diseases, which are now more common. Topics discussed include lung parenchymal disease, malignant mesothelioma, and benign asbestos-associated pleural diseases.
Allen R. Gibbs and Fred Pooley
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195178692
- eISBN:
- 9780199864591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178692.003.0012
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter discusses mineral fiber analysis in asbestos-related diseases. Mineral fiber analysis can provide valuable information for both research and the assessment of exposure. Studies of ...
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This chapter discusses mineral fiber analysis in asbestos-related diseases. Mineral fiber analysis can provide valuable information for both research and the assessment of exposure. Studies of tissues pleural plaques, diffuse pleural fibrosis and rounded atelectasis, malignant mesothelioma, asbestosis, asbestos miners, end-product users, and paraoccupational and environmental exposures are reviewed.Less
This chapter discusses mineral fiber analysis in asbestos-related diseases. Mineral fiber analysis can provide valuable information for both research and the assessment of exposure. Studies of tissues pleural plaques, diffuse pleural fibrosis and rounded atelectasis, malignant mesothelioma, asbestosis, asbestos miners, end-product users, and paraoccupational and environmental exposures are reviewed.
John E. Craighead
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195178692
- eISBN:
- 9780199864591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178692.003.0013
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter considers the historical evolution of society's efforts to protect workers and the members of the general public in the United States in the context of the existing regulations in major ...
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This chapter considers the historical evolution of society's efforts to protect workers and the members of the general public in the United States in the context of the existing regulations in major industrial countries of Europe and North America. The elimination of occupational and environmental asbestos-related disease rarely satisfies all interested parties. The outcome proves to be a compromise, in part, dictated by the technical inadequacies of industrial control measures for dust in the workplace, and the shortcomings of the available scientific information, particularly data on the long-term outcome of asbestos exposures in humans. Regulators are faced with an impossible task juxtaposed between the pleas of industry for economic “sanity” and members of the general population often influenced by inflammatory predictions of the media, worker groups, and environmental activists.Less
This chapter considers the historical evolution of society's efforts to protect workers and the members of the general public in the United States in the context of the existing regulations in major industrial countries of Europe and North America. The elimination of occupational and environmental asbestos-related disease rarely satisfies all interested parties. The outcome proves to be a compromise, in part, dictated by the technical inadequacies of industrial control measures for dust in the workplace, and the shortcomings of the available scientific information, particularly data on the long-term outcome of asbestos exposures in humans. Regulators are faced with an impossible task juxtaposed between the pleas of industry for economic “sanity” and members of the general population often influenced by inflammatory predictions of the media, worker groups, and environmental activists.
Haydn Adams and Michael D. Crane
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195178692
- eISBN:
- 9780199864591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178692.003.0011
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter describes the radiological appearances of benign and malignant asbestos-related chest diseases and the utility of the various imaging modalities for the assessment of each manifestation. ...
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This chapter describes the radiological appearances of benign and malignant asbestos-related chest diseases and the utility of the various imaging modalities for the assessment of each manifestation. Topics covered include ILO classification of radiographs of the pneumoconioses, pleural effusion, diffuse pleural thickening, rounded atelectasis, malignant mesothelioma, asbestosis, and lung cancer.Less
This chapter describes the radiological appearances of benign and malignant asbestos-related chest diseases and the utility of the various imaging modalities for the assessment of each manifestation. Topics covered include ILO classification of radiographs of the pneumoconioses, pleural effusion, diffuse pleural thickening, rounded atelectasis, malignant mesothelioma, asbestosis, and lung cancer.
Nicholas H. Heintz and Brooke T. Mossman
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195178692
- eISBN:
- 9780199864591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178692.003.0005
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter discusses how asbestos interacts with cell-signaling pathways to modulate cell functions, including induction of proliferation and cell death, either by necrosis or by apoptosis ...
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This chapter discusses how asbestos interacts with cell-signaling pathways to modulate cell functions, including induction of proliferation and cell death, either by necrosis or by apoptosis (programmed cell death). Activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and other signaling pathways by asbestos, or reactive oxygen species/reactive nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) elaborated by asbestos, may be critical to elicitation of injury and proliferation in mesothelial and epithelial cells during carcinogenesis. The responses to asbestos are dose-related, and represent a dynamic balance between the induction of cell injury and cell death and promotion of cell proliferation. Chronic cell injury coupled with inflammatory responses also may promote compensatory hyperplasia over time. Because of its durability and capability to produce or modulate ROS/RNS, asbestos may have a unique ability to perturb cell signaling pathways.Less
This chapter discusses how asbestos interacts with cell-signaling pathways to modulate cell functions, including induction of proliferation and cell death, either by necrosis or by apoptosis (programmed cell death). Activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and other signaling pathways by asbestos, or reactive oxygen species/reactive nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) elaborated by asbestos, may be critical to elicitation of injury and proliferation in mesothelial and epithelial cells during carcinogenesis. The responses to asbestos are dose-related, and represent a dynamic balance between the induction of cell injury and cell death and promotion of cell proliferation. Chronic cell injury coupled with inflammatory responses also may promote compensatory hyperplasia over time. Because of its durability and capability to produce or modulate ROS/RNS, asbestos may have a unique ability to perturb cell signaling pathways.
Anthony Swerdlow, Isabel Dos Santos Silva, and Richard Doll
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780192627483
- eISBN:
- 9780191723698
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192627483.001.0001
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
Cancer causes a quarter of all deaths in England and Wales. There is great professional and public interest in cancer trends, but no satisfactory source to which to turn to find information about ...
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Cancer causes a quarter of all deaths in England and Wales. There is great professional and public interest in cancer trends, but no satisfactory source to which to turn to find information about these trends and explanation of them. It is even more difficult to know where to turn for information on trends in factors causing cancer. This book presents new analyses that bring together data on cancer trends in England and Wales since 1868. Detailed consideration is given to the reasons for changes in rates of cancer, in relation to a wide range of risk factors and preventive factors. Data are presented with figures and tables describing long-term trends in more than fifty factors that may affect the risk of cancer, including AIDS, asbestos exposure, cancer screening, childbearing, diet, smoking, and ultraviolet radiation. Particular attention is given to trends in recent decades, but historical trends are also considered.Less
Cancer causes a quarter of all deaths in England and Wales. There is great professional and public interest in cancer trends, but no satisfactory source to which to turn to find information about these trends and explanation of them. It is even more difficult to know where to turn for information on trends in factors causing cancer. This book presents new analyses that bring together data on cancer trends in England and Wales since 1868. Detailed consideration is given to the reasons for changes in rates of cancer, in relation to a wide range of risk factors and preventive factors. Data are presented with figures and tables describing long-term trends in more than fifty factors that may affect the risk of cancer, including AIDS, asbestos exposure, cancer screening, childbearing, diet, smoking, and ultraviolet radiation. Particular attention is given to trends in recent decades, but historical trends are also considered.
Harvey I. Pass, Stephen Hahn, and Nicholas Vogelzang
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195178692
- eISBN:
- 9780199864591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178692.003.0014
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter focuses on malignant mesothelioma (MM). Topics discussed include prognostic indicators, staging, treatment, surgery, radiotherapy, prevention of recurrences of MM in chest scars, ...
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This chapter focuses on malignant mesothelioma (MM). Topics discussed include prognostic indicators, staging, treatment, surgery, radiotherapy, prevention of recurrences of MM in chest scars, multimodality treatment, novel intrapleural approaches, and chemotherapy and newer agents.Less
This chapter focuses on malignant mesothelioma (MM). Topics discussed include prognostic indicators, staging, treatment, surgery, radiotherapy, prevention of recurrences of MM in chest scars, multimodality treatment, novel intrapleural approaches, and chemotherapy and newer agents.
