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40 years after the 1977 ban on bringing work clothes home to wash&#46; Workers&#8217; clothes used to be laundered by a member of the family &#40;usually the wife&#41;&#46;</p></li></ul></p><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This finding suggests a slow decline in cases resulting from measures to prevent exposure due to the long latency period between exposure and disease&#46; Therefore&#44; the prevention measures we adopt today will have their greatest effect some years down the line&#44; with new cases falling after the end of the latency period since last exposure&#46;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0010"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0015"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">-</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The number of cases of environmental exposure has increased since 1996&#44; and overall case numbers have continued to increase between then and 2020&#46; This is due to environmental exposure to asbestos in poor condition&#44; 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Mesothelioma: An Ongoing Problem
Josep Tarrésa, Carmen Diegob,
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carmen.diego.roza@sergas.es

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, Constança Albertí-Casasc
a CAP Canaletes-Fontetes, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
b Departamento de Neumología, Hospital Arquitecto Marcide, Ferrol, A Coruna, Spain
c Departament de Salut, Subdirecció General d’Avaluacions Mèdiques, 08023 Barcelona, Spain
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for patients with a histologically confirmed diagnoses of pleural mesothelioma between 1975 and 2020&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In all cases&#44; the patient or a close relative was subsequently interviewed to complete the information about the source of exposure&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">As different sources of exposure often overlap&#44; the main source was designated according to the established criterion of highest to lowest intensity of exposure&#44; i&#46;e&#46;&#44; occupational&#44; cohabitation&#44; or environmental&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a></p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">From 1975 to 2020&#44; 274 cases of pleural mesothelioma were diagnosed&#44; 143 due to occupational exposure&#44; 86 to environmental exposure&#44; and 45 to cohabitation with an exposed worker&#46; The percentage of the different exposures varies according to the 5-year diagnostic period&#44; 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with an upward trend in the epidemiological curve that shows no signs of stabilization in the total number&#46;</p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">If we study the figures according to the main sources of exposure&#44; we see that&#58;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0005"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0005"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">-</span><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The number of cases of occupational exposure has plateaued since 1996&#44; although a wider range of occupations has been appearing in recent years&#46; This may be due to longer latency periods associated with less intense exposures or increased awareness of occupational risk by physicians and&#47;or affected workers&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0010"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">-</span><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The number of cases of exposure due to cohabitation has fallen since 2011&#44; 40 years after the 1977 ban on bringing work clothes home to wash&#46; Workers&#8217; clothes used to be laundered by a member of the family &#40;usually the wife&#41;&#46;</p></li></ul></p><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This finding suggests a slow decline in cases resulting from measures to prevent exposure due to the long latency period between exposure and disease&#46; Therefore&#44; the prevention measures we adopt today will have their greatest effect some years down the line&#44; with new cases falling after the end of the latency period since last exposure&#46;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0010"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0015"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">-</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The number of cases of environmental exposure has increased since 1996&#44; and overall case numbers have continued to increase between then and 2020&#46; This is due to environmental exposure to asbestos in poor condition&#44; as a result of either proximity to former contaminated industrial sites or inhalation of fibers from asbestos-containing materials in old buildings&#44; demolition sites and landfills that contain remains of degraded asbestos&#46;</p></li></ul></p><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The number of pleural mesothelioma diagnoses continues to grow in Vall&#232;s Occidental Est&#46; Our data show that in recent years mesothelioma and&#44; therefore&#44; all asbestos-related disease&#44; is still largely due to occupational exposure&#46; However&#44; newly diagnosed cases are increasingly due to environmental pollution by asbestos&#44; and this is a serious public health problem&#46;</p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The current problem of exposure to asbestos is therefore no longer a uniquely occupational issue limited to certain businesses or professional activities&#44; as was the case until the 1990s&#44; when patients were mainly people who worked in Spanish towns with significant levels of pollution from fiber cement factories&#44; shipyards&#44; etc&#46; A similar pattern of occupational exposure was detected in the province of Barcelona during this period&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> More recent studies in our area have already detected the increasing importance of environmental exposure as a cause of pleural mesotheliomas&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0080"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6&#44;7</span></a> This type of exposure is remarkable for higher rates of new cases among women&#44; as reported in descriptive studies conducted in other countries&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a></p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Environmental exposure is now the main cause of the sustained increase in the number of new cases of pleural mesothelioma in our area and in others where exposure to materials containing degraded asbestos persists&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9&#44;10</span></a></p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Despite the 2002 ban on importing&#44; using&#44; and installing asbestos-containing materials&#44; the cumulative incidence of pleural mesothelioma continues to rise&#46;</p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Our data suggest that the presence of deteriorated asbestos-containing materials &#40;in homes&#44; schools&#44; workshops&#44; old factories&#44; other types of buildings&#44; trains&#44; ships&#44; old vehicles&#44; landfill sites&#44; etc&#46;&#41; is a threat to public health and its removal should be a health policy priority for the general population&#46;</p><span id="sec0005" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0005">Data sharing</span><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Data will be provided on reasonable request to the corresponding author&#46; The most relevant study data are included in the article&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0010">Funding</span><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This study has not received any public or private grants or funding&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0015">Conflict of interest</span><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">No commercial or financial relationships that could generate any conflict of interest were involved in the preparation of this article&#46;</p></span></span>"
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