Asbestos and malignant mesothelioma: foreword. Reviews of a symposium entitled "Malignant Mesothelioma" organized by the Study Group on Fibrous and Particulate Substances of the 77th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Hygiene, 2007

Our plain-English summary of Asbestos and malignant mesothelioma: foreword. Reviews of a symposium entitled "Malignant Mesothelioma" organized by the Study Group on Fibrous and Particulate Substances of the 77th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Hygiene, 2007, by T. Otsuki (Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2008).

The study

• Author: T. Otsuki
• Journal: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
• Published: 2008;13(2):53-4
• Cited by: 3 articles, as counted by NIH iCite
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In plain English

This article was a short foreword, not a research study. It introduced a special journal issue of reviews from a symposium called "Malignant Mesothelioma." The symposium was held on 28 March 2007 at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Hygiene and was chaired by the author. The author described an earlier 2006 symposium, "Asbestos: Science and Society." The author also noted that a new law to provide economic support to people with asbestos-related diseases, particularly malignant mesothelioma and lung cancers, was passed in March 2007. According to the author, deaths from malignant mesothelioma had been increasing rapidly, about 40 years after asbestos use in Japan rose greatly in the 1960s and 1970s, and cases were assumed to keep increasing until 2020 or later. The 2007 talks covered the pathology of mesothelioma, its molecular biology, a tumor marker for asbestos-related mesothelioma, and diagnosis and treatment strategies. The foreword reported no data of its own. The author wrote that the special issue may provide ideas on how to fight the disease.

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What the study did and found

• Design: Foreword (introductory editorial) to a special issue of symposium reviews; no original research
• Main results:
  • The symposium "Malignant Mesothelioma" was held on 28 March 2007 as part of the 77th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Hygiene
  • The author reported that a new law to economically support people suffering from, or who had died of, asbestos-related diseases was passed in March 2007
  • The author stated that mesothelioma deaths had been increasing rapidly about 40 years after the large rise in asbestos use in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s
  • The author stated that mesothelioma cases are assumed to increase much more until 2020 or later, according to the amount of asbestos used in Japan
  • The symposium included talks on the pathology of mesothelioma, its molecular biology, a tumor marker for asbestos-related mesothelioma, and diagnosis and treatment strategies
• The authors' conclusion: The author wrote that great efforts should go into curing patients with malignant mesothelioma and preventing the disease, and that the special issue may provide ideas and suggestions to Japanese Society for Hygiene members on how to proceed against it

Topics

Medical terms in this study, explained in our Lexicon: Mesothelioma.

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