Mirror.co.uk, 21st February 2007 reported that nearly 200,000 people will die of asbestos related cancers up to 40 years after coming into contact with the deadly fibres.
Professor Julian Peto of Cancer Research UK, said around 90,000 would die from mesothelioma whilst a further 90,000 would suffer asbestos related lung cancer. He said that mesothelioma was different from any other industrial cancer disease in the world. It has already killed twice as many as cervical cancer. Those affected are elderly working class men, who will die within nine to twelve months of diagnosis. There is no cure
Those most at risk are construction workers, especially carpenters, born in the 1940s.
He expected the current epidemic of mesothelioma to peak in less than 10 years. Women and children who lived with men exposed to asbestos in the 1960s also had a one in 1,000 chance of contracting the disease.
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