Facts about Asbestos Lung Cancer that Mom’s Never Told

Facts about Asbestos Lung Cancer that Mom’s Never Told

The relations between asbestos and lung cancer have been prooved for more than 100 years old but the trend of lung cancer causes by asbestos does not declining. Eventhoug political and health campaign againts asbestos spreading extensively and more restriction to materials containing asbestos have been imposed. It’s mean we have a lot of homeworks to do. Below some facts about asbestos lung cancer that perhaps our mother never told before.

1. Asbestos lung cancer is not mesothelioma eventhough both of them may triggered by asbestos. Asbestos lung cancer occurs in lung tissue while mesothelioma forms at the layer tissue around lung and other human internal organ called mesothelium.
2. Asbestos lung cancer developed very slowly. It could takes 10 – 30 years from the asbestos exposure until detected as cancer.
3. The development of asbestos lung cancer begin when tiny asbestos fiber materials inhaled and stay in the lung tissue. Several years later this minerals causing lung inflammation. Slowly but sure it’s became tumor tissue then spreading away became cancer cell.
4. Tobacco smoke and asbestos is a deadly combination that triggering lung cancer. Smoking people that exposed by asbestos death by lung cancer is 28 times higher than average.
5. There are asbestos-like materials that have similarity harming our lung with asbestos such as erionite. Fortunately many countries has imposed the rules that restricting erionite as same as the other asbestos materials.
6. Asbestos lung cancer symptoms are as same as another lung cancer deseases including hard and hurt breathing, loss weight, unstopable cough, and fatigue.
7. Asbestos is not the only materials that causing lung cancer. Tobacco and cigarettes smoke also responsible for lung cancer. On the top of that is lung cancer trigerred by asbestos is the rareless cancer case ever found.