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A multidisciplinary review of several aspects of Asbestos-Related Lung Cancer (ARLC)
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A multidisciplinary review of several aspects of Asbestos-Related Lung Cancer (ARLC)

N. van Zandwijk and Arthur L. Frank
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 107474
Jan 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lungcan.2024.107474
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Abstract

Tobacco remains the dominant risk factor for lung cancer and tends to overshadow the hazards of other air-borne carcinogens. Long latency and lack of accurate asbestos exposure data have considerably delayed the recognition of asbestos as a major lung cancer carcinogen. During the first half of the previous century several clinical observations had suggested that asbestos exposure could be the cause of lung and a novel type of pleural cancer (mesothelioma), but this suspicion was only fully confirmed several years later [1,2]. More recently, asbestos has also been causally related to other solid tumours such as cancers of the GI tract, the larynx and the ovary [3]. Despite being unmasked as an important lung cancer carcinogen more than 70 years ago, asbestos continued to be a popular (building, friction etc.) material, which resulted in an exponential increase of asbestos consumption in the previous century. By the end of the 1980s, the first preventive measures were implemented in European countries and Australia where asbestos was already ubiquitously present in the man-made environment. In the meantime asbestos consumption continued to surge in emerging countries [4].

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