Asbestos Hazards

Awareness of asbestos hazard

• Miller  A, Warshaw R, Nezamis J. "Diffusing capacity and forced vital capacity in 5,003 asbestos-exposed workers: Relationships to interstitial fibrosis (ILO profusion score) and pleural thickening." Am J Ind Med Dec. 2013 56 (12) 1383-93  

• Finkelstein MM, Meisenkothen C. ”Malignant mesothelioma among employees of a Connecticut factory that manufactured friction materials using chrysotile asbestos.” Ann OccupHyg 2010 Aug; 54 (6): 692-6

• Meisenkothen C, Finkelstein MM. “Asbestos exposure and malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis testis: Case series and review of the literature.” OA Case Reports 2013 Feb. 28;2 (2):17

• Meisenkothen C.  “Malignant mesothelioma, airborne asbestos, and the need for accuracy in chrysotile risk assessments.” New Solutions, 2013,  Vol. 23(2) 389-405

• The Lancet, 2009: A review of human carcinogens—Part C: metals, arsenic, dusts, and fibres

• Asbestos. The fight for effective prevention, ban on use and fair compensation for victims

• Baur X., Frank A.L., Soskolne C.L., Oliver L.Ch., Magnani C. "Malignant mesothelioma: Ongoing controversies about its etiology in females"

• Baur X., Frank A.L. "Ongoing downplaying of the carcinogenicity of chrysotile asbestos by vested interests"