- Asbestosis is the process of far-flung pocking of the lung.
- Damages of the lining of the lung, or the pleura, has a couple of symptoms and signs and is an effect of inflaming and the calcification ( hardening ) and/or lining tissue thickening.
- Lung cancer, both of the internal areas of the lung or the pleura ( outer lining ).
Asbestos related lung cancer happened at extremely high rates at the middle of the twentieth century, as people who were exposed years earlier by asbestos finally got cancer. British asbestos labors were amongst the earliest who were found to get lungs cancer associated with asbestos.
Many present patients were previously exposed by asbestos inside:
- mine,
- mill,
- Manufacturing plants, or
- Houses with asbestos, both in the process of transporting, putting in, or pulling out asbestos, or while cleaning items laden with asbestos dust.
- Car repair,
- boiler making,
- construction jobs,
- Pipe fitting,
- laundry of asbestos containing apparels.