The Asbestos Cancer Rates Soar in Ferrol
Author: Kapplak
The number of mesothelioma, the deadliest of cancers caused by the asbestos in the Ferrol health district surpasses almost five times the average of Spain. This figure appears in a report (Incidence of mesothelioma in the health of Ferrol) developed by the Service of Pneumology Hospital Marcide architect who was prepared for the last congress of the Spanish Society of Respiratory Pathology. He explained that between 2000 and 2006 were diagnosed twenty cases of mesothelioma related to occupational activity in the yards of the estuary. This balance offered as an incidence rate of 5/100.000 inhabitants when in Spain is only 12.
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The public hospital has documented 14 cases of patients dying with proven pathology between 2001 and 2006. Four other cases were affected earlier by two other petitoneal and pleuraperitoneal mesothelioma. The report was prepared by Dr. Carmen Diego Roza, Kings Cross, M. J. Mejuto, J. Tabara and J. Rodriguez Moreno Barragan.
The team concludes that the incidence of mesothelioma in our area is superior over others.
The average age of the 14 documented cases is 71 years and all of them, ten recognize asbestos exposure. Six of them had an exposure time of the asbestos fibers 29. Once diagnosed, survival was eight months.
Carlos Pineiro Narón Primary physician specializing in public health and student of asbestosis, emphasized: “When we started to denounce the gravity of the health status of affected by asbestos in the area of Ferrol scaremongering and called us no basis scientific, here’s the information.
Because mesothelioma is an indicator of the situation. Pineiro has therefore promoted through Trasancos physician group, developing a study on quality of life of those affected work in which the pulmonologist Carmen Diego. “We in the Primary-have add-Piñeiro half ten to fifteen patients of asbestos, this means that the total number of affected handled, about 1,200 in the whole area, is only a third of the total number ‘ .
Pineiro’s team has also observed that some of these patients are reluctant to integrate into the monitoring program that develops Marcide Service of Pulmonology, what seems worrisome. It therefore considers it particularly important that primary care physicians are familiar with the problem because they are the first that can detect asbestosis in the patient. The group prepares Trasancos few days for this profession in which to address all the problems.