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An Approach to Overcome the Limitations of Surveillance of Asbestos Related Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: What We Learned from the Sibaté Study in Colombia [PDF]
Annals of Global Health, 2023 Introduction: The asbestos industry began its operations in Colombia in 1942 with the establishment of an asbestos-cement facility in Sibaté, located in the Department of Cundinamarca.
Juan Pablo Ramos-Bonilla +10 more
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The Global Health Dimensions of Asbestos and Asbestos-Related Diseases [PDF]
Annals of Global Health, 2016 The Collegium Ramazzini (CR) reaffirms its long-standing position that responsible public health action is to ban all extraction and use of asbestos, including chrysotile. This current statement updates earlier statements by the CR with a focus on global
Ken Takahashi +2 more
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Asbestos-related diseases in mineworkers: a clinicopathological study [PDF]
ERJ Open Research, 2017 The accurate diagnosis of asbestos-related diseases is important because of past and current asbestos exposures. This study evaluated the reliability of clinical diagnoses of asbestos-related diseases in former mineworkers using autopsies as the ...
Ntombizodwa Ndlovu +5 more
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Evaluation of soluble mesothelin-related peptides and MSLN genetic variability in asbestos-related diseases [PDF]
Radiology and Oncology, 2020 Asbestos exposure is associated with increased risk of several diseases, including malignant mesothelioma (MM). Cell surface glycoprotein mesothelin is overexpressed in MM and serum soluble mesothelin-related peptides (SMRP) were already proposed as a ...
Goricar Katja +4 more
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Asbestos-Related Lung Disease [PDF]
Surgical Pathology Clinics, 2010 Asbestos is a high-profile health hazard. This article examines the assessment asbestos-related malignant mesothelioma and lung cancer. The risk of developing these diseases increases in proportion to the cumulative dose. As persons with heavy occupational asbestos exposures are diminishing, the observed latent period for asbestos-related disease ...
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The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2020 Knowledge of asbestos-related diseases has been accumulating for over one hundred years as the industrial value of asbestos was recognised for the strength of its fibres and their resistance to destruction, resulting in increasing production and use until the multiple health effects have become apparent. Deposition in the lung parenchyma results in an
A W, Musk +5 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Antibodies that target immune checkpoints such as cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA‐4) and the programmed cell death protein 1/ligand 1 (PD-1/PD-L1) are now a treatment option for multiple cancer types. However, as a monotherapy, objective responses
Nicola Principe +30 more
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Nature Communications, 2022 Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) is partially successful as a cancer therapy. Here using mouse models, the authors transcriptionally monitor responding and non-responding tumours showing that responding tumours were associated with transient IFN-β ...
Rachael M. Zemek +15 more
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Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2021 Pleural mesothelioma is a disease with a very poor prognosis. Here, we report a mesothelioma patient who survived for 5 years and a half. As a result of the autopsy, the tumor was diagnosed as a myxoid variant, which is internationally proposed as a ...
Keiichi Mizuhashi +2 more
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BMC Research Notes, 2020 Objective There is substantial evidence that exercise can safely reduce the risk of cancer and improve survival in different human cancer populations.
Scott A. Fisher +6 more
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