Asbestos has properties that have enhanced its use in many applications. Is defined as a natural silicate that has different compositions and structures. So there are two major types of asbestos: serpentine and amphibole. Within streamers are chrysotile and amphibole within is crocidolite, amosite and anthophyllite.
Features include non-combustible, good insulation, tensile strength, abrasion, microorganisms and chemical attack.
The great qualities of the material did, as we have seen, which is widely used, but eventually began to appear the first cases of health problems. One of the early cases identified was the description of asbestosis in asbestos workers in 1898. In 1924 he published the first scientific paper a case of pulmonary asbestosis as early as the decade of 1940-1950 was related to the inhalation of asbestos with pulmonary cancer. In 1960 he demonstrated the relationship between asbestos and malignant mesothelioma of the pleura and peritoneum and in 1982 with benign pleural effusion.
Asbestos fibers can be inhaled through the respiratory system with ease. This makes the fibers can reach the alveoli (in the case of fibers less than 5 microns). The effect on tissue fibers explains the development of lung asbetosis and benign pleural diseases. Regarding the effect of asbestos on cancer development, the theory most widely held is that inflammation caused by asbestos fibers in the lung removed just causing cellular genetic changes needed to develop cancer.
Rare type of cancer in which malignant cells are found in the lining of the chest or abdomen. Exposure to asbestos particles in the air increases the risk of malignant mesothelioma.
Advanced malignant mesothelioma
Malignant Mesothelioma Stage II, III or IV.
Stage I malignant mesothelioma
Cancer is found in the lining of the chest wall and can also be found in the lining of the lung, the lining of the diaphragm (the thin muscle below the lungs and heart that separates the chest from the abdomen), or lining of the sac covering the heart on the same side of the chest. Also called localized malignant mesothelioma.
Stage II malignant mesothelioma
Cancer is found in the lining of the chest wall and lymph nodes on the same side of the chest. The cancer can also be found in the lining of the lung, the lining of the diaphragm (the thin muscle below the lungs and heart that separates the chest from the abdomen) or the lining of the sac that covers the heart on the same side of the chest . The Stage II malignant mesothelioma is advanced malignant mesothelioma.
Most asbestos lawsuits were filed by people who worked in environments where they were exposed to asbestos, and who subsequently developed an asbestos-related disease such as asbestosis and mesothelioma. The objective of the processes that asbestos is the financial compensation the employer responsible for maintaining security of employment, or some other company that was negligent in manufacturing or in recommending a hazardous material.
financial damages usually include the cost of medical bills, other costs associated with the disease, lost wages, and sometimes compensation for loss of quality of life or potential future earnings. Mesothelioma cases usually receive the highest settlement amounts – usually be settled out of court for about $ 3 million each.
Sunbathing, abuse tobacco and alcohol and obesity epidemic caused an alarming increase in various types of cancer Eino Kingdom, leading the newspaper “Daily Mail” today to speak of a “generation of cancer.”
The increase is the most worrying cases of skin cancer. In the case of the most dangerous of all, the melanoma, the increase was 43.2% in 10 years. In 2004, according to official sources from Cancer esearch UK, there were 8939 cases against 5783 in 1995.
Since the mid-80s, the rate doubled in women and tripled in men. But the British still happily expose their bodies to the sun or go to tanning booths. The middle-class women are 2.5 times more likely to suffer from skin cancer than those from lower social classes, according to statistics.
The asbestos-related diseases are a public health problem, as confirmed by the study conducted by Dr. Josep Tarrés, in Catalonia, which confirms that exposure to asbestos or asbestos multiplies by 47 the possibility of developing a fatal cancer. This result goes beyond occupational exposure and also points out the danger it poses to those found during an important period in the areas of influence of a clean heart.
To evaluate and analyze the importance of asbestos-related diseases, the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery, via EROM Area (Occupational Respiratory Diseases and the Environment), has launched an online registration and follow-up survey workers with a history of contact with asbestos complete the National Registry of mesothelioma.
Mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer in the general population. However, in individuals who were exposed to asbestos, which is not so rare. That’s because the only known, proven cause of mesothelioma is asbestos. Some experts have speculated about other causes. There are cases of mesothelioma with no known exposure to asbestos. However, this does not mean that there was no exposure. The right questions should be asked. The person asking the question has to be familiar with the uses and applications of asbestos products. There are many examples where inadequate occupational histories were taken and the potential risks were not investigated.
Asbestos Largest Single Cause
Asbestos has actually been in use for centuries and has been the cause of a series of ailments and diseases including the deadly cancer mesothelioma. The word literally means inextinguishable asbestos and this name was given to this mineral by the Ancient Greeks. The Greeks gave that name because of its amazing qualities fireproof, but also noted the harmful effects of asbestos had on employees.
Mesothelioma is a cancer that is almost always caused by exposure to asbestos. This disease, cells malicious develop in the mesothelium, a protective lining that covers most of the internal organs of the body. Its location is the most typical pleura (outer lining of the lungs and internal chest wall), but can also occur in the peritoneum (lining of the abdominal cavity), the heart, the pericardium (a sac that surrounds the heart) or tunica vaginalis.
Mesothelioma existing cures and diagnostic methods were found wanting by a number of reasons. The disease is harmless to the very last stage, making it difficult to timely detection of cancer. The methods of treating cancer more prevalent as surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy or a combination thereof hade to have any notable success so far. That the disease affects vital organs of our wells do not help much. But now there’s a silver lining in the form of mesothelioma research, which is throwing up several alternative healing. The results may not be desirable levels, so far, but there is hope in the air that these researches in the near future, bring some kind of permanent solution to this terrible disease.
“In the short term, one or two years, can trigger diseases that reduce the breathing capacity,” the pulmonologist Hermano Castro. “This happens due to an inflammatory process.”
“The lung is like a big sponge on the pipes that carry air to the interior. The trachea and the bronchi are the pipes. A sponge or lung parenchyma, are the thousands of pitches, bags, where the oxygen breathing, essential to life, is exchanged for carbon dioxide, garbage produced by the body. The sponge represents 90% of the area of the lungs”, explained the doctor Iolanda Calvo Tiberius, Tenured Professor of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, USP. Asbestos just inflames the lung parenchyma and may cause granuloma. A sponge is very elastic, so that the lungs fill with air and emptied properly. The inflammation, however, alters the tissue, rendering it fibrous. It’s like a scar that forms on the skin when we take a break. The place is harder, with less elasticity. Chronically inflamed may give rise to nodules – the granulomas. “Yet, gradually, the lung loses its ability to expand in an appropriate manner,” continues Castro. The person has shortness of breath, fatigue, cough and phlegm.
In general, after 10, 15 years of exposure to asbestos, fibrosis alters the very structure of the lung. It asbestosis or pulmonary fibrosis. The lung is “harder”, gradually losing its capacity to expand. Causes shortness of breath, back pain, fatigue, weight loss. “There’s no cure, even if the person never comes into contact with asbestos,” says Castro. “Bring slowly to death.”
With this post I want to bring awareness of the risks and the measures that the law currently requires to take cover in case your house is made of asbestos sheets, or more generally, if you have detected the presence of asbestos-containing parts of the building (eg, covered shelters, storage tanks, containers, etc. …).
Asbestos is a health hazard because of which it is composed of fibers that may be present in the workplace and life, and unknowingly inhaled. Releasing fibers into the environment can be done either at a physical handling / treatment or spontaneously, as in the case of brittle materials, worn or subjected to vibration, air currents, shocks, etc..
Exposure to asbestos fibers is associated with respiratory diseases such as absestos and malignant tumors of the lung, such as cancer, and serous membranes, especially the pleura, such as mesothelioma. They occur many years after exposure: 10 – 15 for asbestosis to even 20 to 40 for lung cancer and mesothelioma. In flat sheets and corrugated asbestos-cement, often used for roof construction in the postwar years until the ’70s, asbestos is not friable incorporated into a matrix, which, when in good condition, prevents the release spontaneous fibers. After years of installation, however, the covers show a deterioration by the action of acid rain, the temperature changes, wind erosion and plant organisms that cause corrosion with surface outcrop of the fibers and subsequent release of these in the air. The release of fibers in the shell is easily broken at the plates and areas where the cement matrix is corroded.