what diseases are associated with long term exposure to asbestos?

Answer 1

Asbestos is known to cause:
•Mesothelioma, a deadly cancer of the lining of the chest cavity.
•Cancers of the lung, colon, larynx, esophagus or pharynx.
•Asbestosis, a scarring of delicate lung tissue. This scarring can spread through the lungs and cause breathing problems.
•Pleural disease, which causes scarring of the lung lining and difficulty breathing.
•Asbestos-related diseases may not manifest themselves for 10 to 20 years after exposure.

Answer 2

It will depend upon the length of exposure, in years/months. Degree of contact. e.g. open air or enclosed spaces and any protection, like wearing mask/gloves/skin protection.
The type of asbestos is also important, I think it is brown asbestos is dangerous but blue asbestos is less dangerous.
The main disease will affect the lungs and breathing, asbestosis is the one directly linked to working with this cancer causing product.

Answer 3

There are many types of asbestoses , white , blue ect .It depends upon digree of expure plus time . Most commonly it affacts those persons Who have direct expure in job like shipyard worker ect. Some time the closed contact of that person do get affected .
Most coomon disease is lung fibrosis , it need prolonged expure and can develop within 15 years , is progressive and produce cough and breathlessness. Asbestosis also increase the risk of lung cancer and with somoking, this risk muliplied to many times.

It also produces thinkning of the lung linning and some time,effusion .Most dangereous among all these is the cancer of lung linning called mesothelioma .Rarely it also produce cancer of lining of the abdomen , peritonial cavity . All thses except lung scaring does not depend on digree of expure and develop long after , usualy 35 year after.

best of luck
greene

Answer 4

Siding containing asbestos is risky, in spite of if it truly is friable. it truly is, in spite of if it truly is drilled, decrease, sanded, or crumbled. Doing any of those releases tiny fragments of asbestos into the air, which may be inhaled, enter the lungs, and bring about mesotheliamo, a sort of lung maximum cancers and different subject concerns, pertaining to to the lungs. No different varieties of maximum cancers have been attributed to asbestos exposure, so a approaches as i comprehend. i'm deeply sorry on your loss.

Answer 5

Asbestos-related disorders are caused by inhalation of asbestos fibers. The disorders include asbestosis; lung carcinoma; nonmalignant pleural plaque formation and thickening; benign pleural effusions; and malignant mesothelioma. Asbestosis and mesothelioma both cause progressive dyspnea. Diagnosis is based on history and chest x-ray or CT and, in the case of malignancy, tissue biopsy. Treatment is supportive, except for malignancies, which may require surgery and/or chemotherapy.
Please see the web pages for more details on Asbestosis.

Answer 6

The crucial one to look out for is asbestosis, which is inhalation of asbestos. Normally it won't make its self known for years, it infects the lungs with asbestos poisoning and will kill!!

Answer 7

Mesothelioma. It's a cancer of the lungs cause by inhalation and contact with asbestos. My father had it.

Answer 8

respirator diseases such as ones that affect the lungs, windpipe and breathing etc, its causes premature death, it has severe long lasting health implications if particles are breathed in

common in the elderly due to lack of education, it was used to make buildings, equipment etc

repoer to your local council it should be safely removed if it can be

Answer 9

Asbestos is nasty!! really screws up your respiratory system and also can effect your eye sight

Answer 10

Lung cancer is the most common one.