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

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].
Source: Lung Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research