Are lung and pleural benign asbestos induced diseases a preliminary step in the pathogenic process of mesothelioma and lung cancer development?

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 663-664

  Goldberg, M ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOSITE; ANTHOPHYLLITE; ASBESTOS FIBER; CHRYSOTILE; CROCIDOLITE; TOBACCO SMOKE; TREMOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASBESTOSIS; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEUM CANCER; PERITONEUM MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURA PLAQUE; PLEURA THICKENING; PLEURAL FIBROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ASBESTOSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURAL DISEASES;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 25444473388     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2005.021865     Document Type: Note

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