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Exaggerated risk perception of asbestos-related diseases: commentary

Сибирский научный медицинский журнал, 2023
Health risks from asbestos have been evaluated on the basis of professional histories from remote past, when exposures at workplaces were greater than today. The linear no-threshold model has been applied, although its relevance has not been demonstrated.
S. V. Jargin
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Chemical reactivity of thermal treated naturally occurring amphibole asbestos [PDF]

, 2020
Non-occupational (environmental) exposure to naturally occurring asbestos (NOA) represents a potentially important source of risk for human health in several parts of the world.
Francesco Turci, Maura Tomatis, Paolo Ballirano, Alessandro Pacella, Cecilia Viti, Andrea Bloise   +5 more
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Asbestos: mining exposure, health effects and policy implications

McGill Journal of Medicine, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to review research in the health effects and risks associated with exposure to asbestos and then to use this scientific evidence to analyze the implications of Canada's current policy on the use, manufacturing and export of ...
Kristina Luus
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Structurally controlled growth of fibrous amphibole in tectonized metagabbro: constraints on asbestos concentrations in non-serpentinized rocks [PDF]

, 2020
The nucleation and concentration of asbestos in rocks are mostly associated with mechanisms of fibre formation, combined with the water-dependent mineralogical alteration produced during the serpentinization of ultramafic masses.
Gianluca Vignaroli, Andrea Billi, Federico Rossetti, Thomas Theye, Belardi, Girolamo, Rossetti, Federico, Theye, Thomas, Billi, Andrea, Girolamo Belardi, Vignaroli, Gianluca   +9 more
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Nanoscale transformations of amphiboles within human alveolar epithelial cells

Scientific Reports, 2022
Amphibole asbestos is related to lung fibrosis and several types of lung tumors. The disease-triggering mechanisms still challenge our diagnostic capabilities and are still far from being fully understood. The literature focuses primarily on the role and
Ruggero Vigliaturo, Maja Jamnik, Goran Dražić, Marjetka Podobnik, Magda Tušek Žnidarič, Giancarlo Della Ventura, Günther J. Redhammer, Nada Žnidaršič, Simon Caserman, Reto Gieré   +9 more
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Dissolution Reaction and Surface Modification of UICC Amosite in Mimicked Gamble’s Solution: A Step towards Filling the Gap between Asbestos Toxicity and Its Crystal Chemical Features

Nanomaterials, 2023
This study focuses on the dissolution process and surface characterization of amosite fibres following interaction with a mimicked Gamble’s solution at a pH of 4.5 and T = 37 °C, up to 720 h.
Alessandro Pacella, Paolo Ballirano, Maria Cristina Di Carlo, Marzia Fantauzzi, Antonella Rossi, Elisa Nardi, Cecilia Viti, Lorenzo Arrizza, Antonella Campopiano, Annapaola Cannizzaro, Andrea Bloise, Maria Rita Montereali   +11 more
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Asbestos Contamination in Talc-Based Cosmetics: An Invisible Cancer Risk

Environmental Health Insights, 2020
The lack of regulation and adequate testing of talc-containing personal care products in the U.S. has resulted in the contamination of cosmetics with asbestos.
Tasha Stoiber, Sean Fitzgerald, Nneka S Leiba   +2 more
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Estimating the asbestos-related lung cancer burden from mesothelioma mortality. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Quantifying the asbestos-related lung cancer burden is difficult in the presence of this disease's multiple causes. We explore two methods to estimate this burden using mesothelioma deaths as a proxy for asbestos exposure.
Byrnes, G, Byrnes, G., G Byrnes, P Boffetta, Peto, J, J Peto, McCormack, V, Straif, K, Boffetta, P, V McCormack, McCormack, V., Straif, K., K Straif, Peto, J., Boffetta, P.   +14 more
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Occurrence and characterization of tremolite asbestos from the Mid Atlantic Ridge

Scientific Reports, 2021
Tremolite is one of the most common amphibole species and, in the fibrous form (i.e., characterized by crystals/particles consisting of fibres with length > 5 µm, width  3), one of the six asbestos minerals.
Dario Di Giuseppe, Natale Perchiazzi, Daniele Brunelli, Tommaso Giovanardi, Luca Nodari, Giancarlo Della Ventura, Daniele Malferrari, Marcia Maia, Alessandro F. Gualtieri   +8 more
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Surface alteration mechanism and topochemistry of iron in tremolite asbestos: A step toward understanding the potential hazard of amphibole asbestos

, 2015
Non-occupational, environmental and unintentional exposure to fibrous tremolite, one of the most widespread naturally occurring asbestos, represents a potentially significant geological risk in several parts of the world.
Montereali, M.R., Nardi, E., Cremisini, C.   +2 more
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