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Asbestos fibers

Durable mineral fibers that can become airborne when asbestos-containing materials are damaged, cut, drilled, or removed.

Airborne form

fiber

The form describes what is suspended in air at the point of exposure. A material can produce more than one form, such as dust during handling and fume during heating.

Health effects

mesotheliomalung cancerasbestosis

Carcinogenicity

Carcinogenic to humans — asbestos. Classification system: IARC, group 1.

A classification applies only to the agent and exposure described by the cited source; it is not a personal risk estimate.

Evidence

CDC/NIOSH identifies asbestosis as a pneumoconiosis caused by inhaling asbestos fibers and lists it among the primary dust-related lung diseases.

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The primary pneumoconioses are: Abestosis – caused by inhaling asbestos fibers; Silicosis – caused by inhaling silica dust; Coal workers' pneumoconiosis ... caused by inhaling coal mine dust.

Parsed source dossier

These excerpts were generated from downloaded authoritative PDFs using the project ingestion pipeline. They are source metadata, not new medical interpretation.

mono-100C-TABLES/100C-04-Table2.1.pdf

Table 2.1. Cohort studies of chromium IV and lung and respiratory cancer Exposure Category n1 Relative 95% CI Type of estimate Author date/ Exposure Characteristics of Cohort Comments Risk and reference Place Assessment population Chromate Production Brinton, et al. 5522 person-years in All workers 26 28.9 [18.87–42.35] SMR ref US 1952) 7 chromate production US plants; employed 1940–50, followed 1946–50 Enterline, (1974) US 1200 workers in 3 chromate All respiratory All workers 69 9.43 [7.34–11.

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