Five Important Facts about Asbestos Cancer

Five Important Facts about Asbestos Cancer

1. Asbestos cancer is common name for building materials that composed some minerals. People using asbetos mainly for building construction such as roofing, floor tile, ceiling tile, piping and plumbering, fire doors, fireproffing, etc. We can also find asbestos at vehicle’s brake system, cigarettes filters, plastic materials, and many more. Minerals that assosiated to asbestos are serpentine, chrysotile, amphibole, amosite, crocidolite, thermolite, anthophylite, and actinolite.
2. People has using asbestos fibre as building component since 19 century and became popular until 1970’s . This popularity decline since some reports relating asbestos and cancer occurs. Starting from US, the campaign againts asbetos spreading around the world. Several countries then restrict even banned asbestos as building materials.
3. Asbetos-containing material harm people health when it’s damage or defected because of weathering. Dangerous tiny asbestos fibre fly into the air and may inhalated by people. Continue exposed by asbestos fibre could lead respiratory disease such as lung cancer.
4. Diseases related to asbestos exposured include asbestosis and mesothelioma though there are some reports about cancer and tumor related to asbestos exposured. Asbestosis is a disease that harming tissue of the lungs. The symtoms including shortness of breath and countinuing cough. This disease could lead to lung cancer. Mesothelioma is a cancer related to layers of tissue that covering internal organs, including lungs.
5. Young Barrack Hussein Obama, former US President, has involved in action related to asbestos cancer in 1980s. Written to his biography, Dreams from My Father, he and his counterparts found an almost neglegted building called Altgeld Garden. This building was build at 1940’s for US world war II veterans. After several decades this building deteriorated and Obama and his friends found that asbestos at the building could harm the residents health. He organizing actions to make the local authorithy paid their attention to this building.