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The Effect of Grinding on Tremolite Asbestos and Anthophyllite Asbestos [PDF]

Minerals, 2018
The six commercial asbestos minerals (chrysotile, fibrous actinolite, crocidolite, amosite, fibrous tremolite, and fibrous anthophyllite) are classified by the IARC as carcinogenic to humans. There are currently several lines of research dealing with the inertisation of asbestos minerals among which the dry grinding process has received considerable ...
Andrea Bloise, Robert Kusiorowski, Alessandro F. Gualtieri   +2 more
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The Global Spread of Asbestos

Annals of Global Health, 2014
Background: Asbestos continues to be used in large quantities around the world and to be an important commodity in global trade. Objective: To assess and quantify current global patterns of asbestos production, export and use; to examine global patterns ...
Arthur L. Frank, T.K. Joshi
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Enhancing the efficacy of immunotherapy using radiotherapy

Clinical & Translational Immunology, 2020
Recent clinical breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapy, especially with immune checkpoint blockade, offer great hope for cancer sufferers – and have greatly changed the landscape of cancer treatment.
Synat Keam, Suki Gill, Martin A Ebert, Anna K Nowak, Alistair M Cook   +4 more
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Asbestos, asbestosis, and cancer, the Helsinki criteria for diagnosis and attribution 2014: recommendations.

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, 2015
IntroductionAlthough the use of asbestos has been banned in several industrialized countries, many workers continue to be exposed in asbestos repair and removal work, and asbestos is still widely used in various newly industrialized, rapidly developing ...
H. Wolff, T. Vehmas, P. Oksa, J. Rantanen, H. Vainio   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Epidemiological patterns of asbestos exposure and spatial clusters of incident cases of malignant mesothelioma from the Italian national registry [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Previous ecological spatial studies of malignant mesothelioma cases, mostly based on mortality data, lack reliable data on individual exposure to asbestos, thus failing to assess the contribution of different occupational and environmental ...
Ancona, L., Angelillo, Italo, Ascoli, V., Badiali, A. M., Baldassarre, A., Ballarin, M. N., Benfatto, L., Bianchelli, M., Binazzi, Alessandra, Brangi, A., Brentisci, C., Bressan, V., Cacciarini, V., Calisti, R., Cammarieri Diglio, G., Canfora, M. L., Cauzillo, Gabriella, Cavariani, F., Cavone, Domenica, Chellini, Elisabetta, Chermaz, C., Cocchioni, Mario, Consonni, D., Convertini, L., Corfiati, Marisa, Cozza, V., D'Alo', D., Dardanoni, G., Davoli, M., De Michieli, P., Di Giammarco, A., Di Marzio, Davide, Forastiere, F., Gangemi, M., Gennaro, Valerio, Gilardetti, M., Gioffr\ue8, F., Giovannetti, L., Iavicoli, Sergio, La Rosa, F., Lio, S. G., Macerata, V., Mangone, L., Marinaccio, Alessandro, Martini, A., Mazzucco, G., Melis, Massimo, Menegozzo, Simona, Mensi, Carolina, Merler, Enzo, Merletti, F., Mirabelli, Dario, Musti, Marina, Negro, Corrado, Nicita, C., Nieddu, V., Null, Detragiache E., Pascucci, Cristiana, Pergola, M., Pesatori, A. C., Petrucci, M. S., Riboldi, L., Romanelli, Antonio, Romeo, Elisa, Sala, O., Santoro, M., Scarselli, Alberto, Schallemberg, Gert, Scondotto, S., Silvestri, S., Silvestri, Stefano, Stecchi, S., Storchi, C., Stracci, Fabrizio, Stura, A., Tallarigo, Federico, Trafficante, Luana, Tumino, Rosario, Verardo, Marina, Viscardi, F.   +79 more
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Evaluation of Mineral Carbonation of Asbestos-Tex and Analysis of Airborne Asbestos Concentrations

Buildings, 2022
Asbestos is a human carcinogen that causes diseases, such as lung cancer and malignant mesothelioma. In Korea, approximately 1.23 × 109 kg of asbestos raw materials was imported for about 30 years.
Yongtaek Lim, Hongseok Jang, Seungyoung So   +2 more
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Letter from Asian Ban Asbestos Network to Quebec Premier Jean Charest and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper [PDF]

, 2010
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Asian Ban Asbestos Network
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Exposure–Response Analyses of Asbestos and Lung Cancer Subtypes in a Pooled Analysis of Case–Control Studies

Epidemiology, 2017
Background: Evidence is limited regarding risk and the shape of the exposure–response curve at low asbestos exposure levels. We estimated the exposure–response for occupational asbestos exposure and assessed the joint effect of asbestos exposure and ...
A. Olsson, R. Vermeulen, J. Schüz, H. Kromhout, B. Pesch, S. Peters, T. Behrens, L. Portengen, D. Mirabelli, P. Gustavsson, B. Kendzia, J. Almansa, Véronique Luzon, J. Vlaanderen, I. Stücker, F. Guida, D. Consonni, N. Caporaso, M. Landi, J. Field, I. Brüske, H. Wichmann, J. Siemiatycki, M. Parent, L. Richiardi, F. Merletti, K. Jöckel, W. Ahrens, H. Pohlabeln, N. Plato, A. Tardón, D. Zaridze, J. McLaughlin, P. Demers, N. Szeszenia‐Da̧browska, J. Lissowska, P. Rudnai, E. Fabiánová, Rodica Stanescu Dumitru, V. Bencko, L. Foretova, V. Janout, P. Boffetta, B. Bueno-de-Mesquita, F. Forastiere, T. Brüning, K. Straif   +46 more
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Critical Electrochemistry Technologies Applicable in Space Exploration

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The available resources in space and discuss the application scenarios and challenges of electrochemical methods in four critical domains is analyzed: metallurgical processing of mineral resources, water resources utilization, carbon cycle management in extraterrestrial habitats, and electrical energy storage.
Ruisi Xu, Zepeng Lv, Shaolong Li, Jilin He, Jianxun Song   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asbestos and Asbestos-related Diseases in Vietnam: In reference to the International Labor Organization/World Health Organization National Asbestos Profile

Safety and Health at Work, 2013
This paper describes progress on formulating a national asbestos profile for the country of Vietnam. The Center of Asbestos Resource, Vietnam, formulated a National Profile on Asbestos-related Occupational Health, with due reference to the International ...
Van Hai Pham, Thi Ngoc Lan Tran, Giang Vinh Le, Mehrnoosh Movahed, Ying Jiang, Nguyen Ha Pham, Hisashi Ogawa, Ken Takahashi   +7 more
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