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  • Title: [Assessment of lung cancer risk due to environmental asbestos dust exposure in the general population].
    Author: Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Szymczak W, Wilczyńska U.
    Journal: Przegl Epidemiol; 1995; 49(4):407-16. PubMed ID: 8868201.
    Abstract:
    Assessment of lung cancer risk due to environmental asbestos dust exposure in the general population was based on the model of risk extrapolation from the occupational (in asbestos-cement plant) to the environmental concentrations. 24-h determinations of asbestos fibre concentrations in the air varied considerably, from 0.4 f/l to 4.6 f/l. The lung cancer risk due to environmental exposure of the general population to asbestos dust has been estimated to be 22 cases p.a. This seems to be very low, considering that the total number of deaths from lung cancer in Poland in 1992 was about 17.5 thousand. The environmental asbestos exposures and their health effects are limited mainly to the areas located in the vicinity of asbestos plants and are attributable primarily to improper utilization of the plant wastes (for example as the surface of local roads and sports grounds at schools) and their unathorized disposal. The incidence of pleural mesothelioma among the inhabitants of those areas seems to be endemic. The endemic character of pleural mesothelioma occurrence has been recently revealed in the vicinity of one of major Polish asbestos and cement plant.
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