1. Asbestos textile production linked to malignant peritoneal and pleural mesothelioma in women: Analysis of 28 cases in Southeast China.
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Gao Z, Hiroshima K, Wu X, Zhang J, Shao D, Shao H, Yang H, Yusa T, Kiyokawa T, Kobayashi M, Shinohara Y, Røe OD, Zhang X, and Morinaga K
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- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, China epidemiology, Female, Humans, Lung Neoplasms diagnosis, Lung Neoplasms epidemiology, Male, Mesothelioma diagnosis, Mesothelioma epidemiology, Mesothelioma, Malignant, Middle Aged, Occupational Diseases diagnosis, Occupational Diseases epidemiology, Occupational Exposure analysis, Occupational Exposure statistics & numerical data, Peritoneal Neoplasms diagnosis, Peritoneal Neoplasms epidemiology, Pleural Neoplasms diagnosis, Pleural Neoplasms epidemiology, Retrospective Studies, Textile Industry, Air Pollutants, Occupational adverse effects, Asbestos adverse effects, Lung Neoplasms etiology, Mesothelioma etiology, Occupational Diseases etiology, Occupational Exposure adverse effects, Peritoneal Neoplasms etiology, Pleural Neoplasms etiology
- Abstract
Background: Chrysotile had been used in asbestos textile workshops in Southeast China but a clear relation to mesothelioma is lacking., Methods: All patients diagnosed with mesothelioma from 2003 to 2010 at Yuyao People's Hospital were re-evaluated by multiple expert pathologists with immunohistochemistry and asbestos exposure data were collected., Results: Of 43 patients with a mesothelioma diagnosis, 19 peritoneal and nine pleural cases were finally diagnosed as mesothelioma. All were females, and the mean age of the patients with peritoneal or pleural mesothelioma was 52.4 and 58.2 years, respectively. All these cases had a history of domestic or occupational exposure to chrysotile. Two-thirds of the patients were from two adjoining towns with multiple small asbestos textile workshops. Contamination of tremolite was estimated to be less than 0.3%., Conclusions: This is a report of mesothelioma in women exposed to chrysotile asbestos at home and at work, with an over-representation of peritoneal mesothelioma., (© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)
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- 2015
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