No one would guess that the most rapidly increasing cancer in women is mesothelioma. In fact, even experts are astonished by this news. One thought is that the rise is linked to schools built in the 1960s and 70s that may have contained asbestos. However, it is unknown why it is increasing in women and not men. Incidences in men are increasing but not at the same rapid rate as in women. The fact that the ratio has changed suggest that the pattern of exposure has changes. Even though the exposure occurred decades ago this is news to us because it takes the cancer up to 50 years after contact to develop.
Most victims exposed to asbestos had worked in industries associated manual labor in the 1960s including construction and shipyards, jobs that mostly went to men. However, many of the buildings that were built during this time contained asbestos and just with a little exposure mesothelioma can occur. The majority of women suffering from mesothelima don’t even know that they have been exposed.
The number of men still outnumbers women but the increasing rates in both sexes has changed.
Mesothelioma kills 3,000 people every year in the US but the death rate is not even expected to peak until 2015. Great Britain has the highest incidence of mesothelioma in the world, and the number of deaths increasing. The biggest concern being the rapidly increasing number of females who are dying of this cancer, and there deaths are a result of a low exposure.
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Tags: Asbestos, Mesothelioma
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