Asbestosis Health Byte

Asbestosis is a chronic inflammatory medical condition affecting the parenchymal tissue of the lungs. It occurs after long-term, heavy exposure to asbestos. Sufferers have severe shortness of breath and are at an increased risk regarding several different types of lung cancer. Learn about the symptoms, possible causes, and treatment options for asbestosis in this video.
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Symptoms of asbestosis are usually fairly mild, until the disease has progressed to its later stages and leads to other complications. Asbestosis is a pulmonary disease caused when microscopic asbestos fibers are lodged in the alveoli sacs of the lungs, hindering breathing and causing further respiratory problems.

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Asbestosis www.mesorc.com In addition to mesothelioma, another asbestos danger is asbestosis. With asbestosis, lung tissue is damaged by asbestos fibers. The fibers cause inflammation and scarring. Asbestosis occurs when scar tissue replaces lung tissue. This particular asbestos danger produces shortness of breath and coughing. It may also cause permanent lung damage. While asbestosis is noncancerous, it is a progressive and chronic, or long lasting, lung ailment. Asbestosis usually progresses slowly. Like mesothelioma, asbestosis usually takes 10-20 years to develop after asbestos exposure. Asbestosis has been known as an asbestos danger for as long as mesothelioma has been known to be a danger. The connection between asbestos and these two ailments was first reported in 1943. Studies have shown that people at greatest risk for this asbestos danger are those with high levels of exposure to asbestos for a long period of time. Studies show a clear relationship between the amount of asbestos inhaled over a lifetime and the development of asbestosis. People with low levels of asbestos exposure for a long duration also developed asbestosis. Asbestosis has been shown to lower a person’s resistance to secondary diseases, like pneumonia, emphysema, and tuberculosis. In some cases, asbestosis may have caused these types of diseases to become fatal. Many people with asbestosis also develop mesothelioma, a rare and deadly form of cancer. This is especially true for asbestosis …
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Urgent HSC assignment help: Why do the symptoms of asbestosis develop years and years after exposure?

Question by daily302: Urgent HSC assignment help: Why do the symptoms of asbestosis develop years and years after exposure?

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Answer by lovagal
i reli don’t know but can try googling it or wikipedia. thats wat i do

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Q&A: Is the Incidence of Mesothelioma Similar Between Asbestosis and Silicosis?

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Question by mdGreg C: Is the Incidence of Mesothelioma Similar Between Asbestosis and Silicosis?

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?).

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Answer 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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Q&A: Is there a list of Naturopathic Doctors who work on Asbestosis?

Question by RC: Is there a list of Naturopathic Doctors who work on Asbestosis?

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Answer by Christine
Hi, sorry but i don’t know where you’re from so I can’t help you find a naturopathic dr. Sorry! But this link might be of interest to you

http://www.blackmores.com.au/news/news_detail.asp?art=989

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Court orders proceedings halted in asbestos case

Court orders proceedings halted in asbestos case
The Chief Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court has signed an order stopping all proceedings in the asbestos case that resulted in a $ 322 million verdict by a Smith County jury.
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NYC Mesothelioma Attorney Says OSHA Fines of Brooklyn Hospital Shine Light on Dangers of Workplace Asbestos Exposure
Joseph W. Belluck of New York City’s Belluck & Fox law firm says OSHA fines against Interfaith Medical Center reflect the seriousness of neglecting workers’ welfare and well-known rules and regulations about asbestos in the workplace. (PRWeb July 13, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/ny-mesothelioma-lawyer/work-asbestos-exposure/prweb8640796.htm
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How doe a healthy lung look appose to an asbestosis infected lung?

Question by Maedalyce: How doe a healthy lung look appose to an asbestosis infected lung?

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Answer by C R
In general, healthy lungs are pink. Diseased lungs have dark spots or whitened areas. The American Lung Association has some good photos.

http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=22577

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Pleural plaque

Some cool asbestosis images:

Pleural plaque


Image by Pulmonary Pathology
Fibrous plural plaques as seen on this diaphragmatic pleural surface are often associated with asbestosis.

St Dominic c1970 St Andrews Dock


Image by JohnGreyTurner
This was the star of a 1959 BBC Schools film documenting the activities of the Hull Fishing industry. See the site www.lincsfilm.co.uk/listings/listing361380.html for full listings of archived Hull & Grimsby sidewinder films.

St Dominic was indeed my favourite of all the Hull trawlers.

Subsequent Note : ArcticCorsair’s note about his Grandad prompts me to add a further note about my Dad. He worked for Cook, Welton and Gemmell and Broady’s as an electrician on fitting out and refits, first at the Beverley Yard and subsequently at Princes Dock until it’s closure.
I recall he told stories of going on sea trials (incl St Dominic) and remembering his being ‘missing’ for a couple of weeks at a time occasionally when I was very young. Sadly, these graceful workhorses were to be the cause of his demise. Much of his work was deep in the bowels of the vessel below the boilers while they were being lagged (generally by Broady’s). He would tell a story of ‘playing snowballs’ with the fibres that would hang heavy in the air and form a carpet at their feet. Of course these fibres were asbestos and he died slowly from asbestosis in 1992 over 20 years after his last contact with that infernal mineral. But he would always talk fondly of his many years with the trawlers, of the friends he made and the pride he took in his work – I did see some some photographs once of his work – a industrial work of art – and wish that I had them today.

Note : ( Highly cropped due to using Canon350D with a 35mm Slide Copier – when I can afford a full size CCD camera – I’ll redo them. For now I’m glad to have had the opportunity of seeing some of these for the first time ever as many never got printed )

How frequently does asbestosis develop into diseases such as lung cancer or mesothelioma?

Question by Ryan W: How frequently does asbestosis develop into diseases such as lung cancer or mesothelioma?

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Answer by A M WATERS
This would depend on the severity of the asbestosis, i.e. some sufferers can have a mild widespread scarring of the lungs over a life time. However smokers who continue smoking after they have been diagnosed with asbestosis have a fifty five percent higher chance of developing cancer and mesothelioma – particularly if the person smokes more than 20 per day.

Tobacco smoke and asbestos both contribute to each other’s cancer-causing carcinogenic effects, hence, both risk factors combined is more dangerous than the effects of one risk factor alone.

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Q&A: If people become afflicted with asbestosis from 9/11 will they get free medical care ?

Question by Phil A: If people become afflicted with asbestosis from 9/11 will they get free medical care ?
Or nasty cancer-like lung diseases like mezothelioma, will they be taken care of ?
Just wondering ?
Thanks.

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Answer by hog b
At the moment there is a very important debate going on about this issue.

http://911blogger.com/news/2010-12-22/911-first-responders-health-care-bill-deal-reached-sen

It is shameful to America that there is strong resistance to compensating first responders,

not least because the EPA (environmental protection agency) was ordered by the government to lie, and say the air at ground zero was safe to work in,

when they knew it was not true.

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