Mesothelioma incidence varies markedly from one country to another. The highest annual
crude incidence rates (about 30 cases per million) are observed in Australia, Belgium, and …

Italy was the second main asbestos producer in Europe, after the Soviet Union, until the end
of the 1980s, and raw asbestos was imported on a large scale until 1992. The Italian pattern …

Objective Determine the role of surgery for patients with malignant abdominal
mesotheliomas (MAMs). Methods The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) …

Relatively low numbers of malignant mesotheliomas have been reported from Eastern Asia.
In order to explore the causes of this fact, the available data on mesothelioma …

Background and aim. The occurrence of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) has been
reported among population groups with no documented professional exposure to asbestos …

The principal feature in mesothelioma geography is the lack of data. Reliable figures on the
incidence/mortality of/from mesothelioma are available for about 15% only of the world …

In this issue of the Monaldi Archives [1], Antti Tossavainen provides an expert analysis on
the relationship between incidence of and mortality from malignant pleural mesothelioma …

BACKGROUND: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive tumor with
increasing incidence in industrialized countries, because of previous widespread asbestos …

Riassunto Il Registro Nazionale dei Mesoteliomi (ReNaM) è stato istituito presso l'Istituto
Superiore per la Prevenzione e la Sicurezza sul Lavoro (ISPESL) con l'obiettivo di stimare …

Total asbestos production in the world between 1900 and 2000 accounted for about 173
million tonnes and more than 80% of this production refers to the period starting from 1960 …