What are the health hazards of exposure to asbestos?

Exposure to asbestos may increase the risk of several serious diseases like mesotheloma cancers:

• Asbestosis—a chronic lung ailment that can produce shortness of breath, coughing, and permanent lung damage;
  
• Lung cancer;
  
• Mesathelioma—a relatively rare cancer of the thin membranes that line the chest and abdomen; and
  
• Other cancers, such as those of the larynx, oropharynx, gastrointestinal tract, and kidney.

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Sources of National Cancer Institute Information

Mesothilioma, Mesotheliema,Mesothiliema,Mesotheleoma Mesosthelioma, Masesthilioma information: