Asbestos, smoking and lung cancer: an update

S Klebe, J Leigh, DW Henderson… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… Nordmann and Sorge referred to this occurrence as the occupational cancer of asbestos
workers, and they thought that approximately 12% of asbestosis patients might develop lung …

Lung cancer screening in asbestos-exposed populations

SB Markowitz - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… levels of exposure to asbestos who smoked ≥20 pack-years of cigarettes (including former
… should be offered to workers exposed to asbestos but who have never smoked and have no …

Smoking, occupational exposures, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis among Swedish construction workers

M Andersson, PD Blanc, K Torén… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… of Swedish construction workers. We also considered concomitant cigarette smoking, given
… avoid misclassification bias, we excluded workers with likely exposure to asbestos or silica. …

The case of asbestos-exposed workers: A psychological evaluation

A Lebovits, M Byrne, JJ Strain - Advances in Environmental …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Smoking by an asbestos worker carries with it a degree of risk substantially out of proportion
to the risk associated with the same behavior by a member of the general population. …

Tobacco smoking among chrysotile asbestos workers in Asbest in the Russian Federation

A Olsson, EV Kovalevskiy, M Talibov… - Occupational and …, 2020 - oem.bmj.com
… In addition, we observed that smoking behaviour in current and retired workers at JSC
Uralasbest does not appear to be associated with levels of cumulative dust exposure. Hence, in …

Pleural plaques and the risk of lung cancer in asbestos-exposed subjects

FJH Brims, K Kong, EJA Harris… - American journal of …, 2020 - atsjournals.org
… of asbestos exposure and found that after adjustment for smoking, presence of asbestosis,
and asbestos … and manufacturing industry workers with mixed asbestos-fiber exposures, …

Lung cancer: Mechanisms of carcinogenesis by asbestos

BT Mossman, AF Gualtieri - Occupational cancers, 2020 - Springer
… the interactions between components of cigarette smoke and asbestos that are important in
Work is in progress to validate the model in collaboration with international organizations, …

… the association between an environmental or occupational exposure over lifetime and the risk of chronic disease: Application to smoking, asbestos, and lung cancer

E Lévêque, A Lacourt, V Philipps, D Luce, P Guénel… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… , all much stronger than never smokers. The most … of asbestos exposure trajectories which
all had higher risk of lung cancer compared to men never occupationally exposed to asbestos, …

Occupational asbestos exposure and survival among lung cancer patients

H Noelle, O Pérol, M Pérol, V Avrillon, E Belladame… - Lung Cancer, 2023 - Elsevier
… study based on 5,402 asbestos-exposed workers showed a … adjustment for smoking status
and level of asbestos exposure (… and non-smokers exposed to asbestos were not sufficient to …

Silica and asbestos exposure at work and the risk of bladder cancer in Canadian men: a population-based case-control study

L Latifovic, PJ Villeneuve, MÉ Parent, L Kachuri… - BMC cancer, 2020 - Springer
… However, it was noted that the observed elevated mortality may also have been due to
cigarette smoking, exposure to asphalt and coal tar pitch volatiles (PMR, [54]). A population-…