Pleural and Peritoneal Mesotheliomata (Section 4, Organ Involvement in Asbestos-related Disease) (1976)

This text is one section of a textbook chapter by Leslie Preger, 'Organ Involvement in Asbestos-related Disease,' covering pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma. It is a review of earlier published work and of clinical and X-ray case material, not a new study, and it has no study population of its own. It covered how common the disease is, what affects how it develops, how the tumor looks and spreads, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and X-ray findings. It credited several findings to other researchers. Wagner and colleagues suggested in 1960 that mesothelioma was related to asbestos exposure. Newhouse, studying UK asbestos textile workers, showed a dose-response relationship. Butler and Berry correctly diagnosed 25 of 26 mesotheliomas from fluid samples. The chapter also said that a first diagnosis of mesothelioma was not confirmed in 34 percent of a Dutch series and 40 percent of a British series. It said that smoking has not been shown to multiply mesothelioma risk and that no treatment had been proven to extend life. The author expected mesothelioma incidence to stay high until the turn of the century. Much of the scanned text was unreadable.

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