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Medical History of El asbesto

Medical History of El asbesto

For decades, health experts tried to alert the public to health risks caused by asbesto.

In the 1920s and 30s, medical researchers documented asbesto-related diseases.

El asbesto industry executives downplayed and even suppressed medical research showing the health effects of asbesto.

By the 1930s, asbesto manufacturers knew that breathing in asbesto fue un Peligro para la salud de sus empleados.⁶

• Algunos asbesto companies admitted to not informing employees when a company doctor diagnosed them with asbestosis.⁷ Employees who died from asbesto exposure were listed as dying of other causes.⁸
• El asbesto companies also conducted their own health research.⁹ But some suppressed findings that showed asbesto was dangerous.¹⁰
• When one study connected asbesto exposure to cancer, an asbesto manufacturer buried the report and had it rewritten to exclude all mention of cancer.¹¹

In the 1960s, health experts began exposing the truth about asbesto-related illnesses.

In the 1950s, scientists showed that workers exposed to asbesto were much more likely to develop lung cancer.¹²

By the 1960s, it was clear to medical researchers that asbesto workers were at special risk of developing lung cancer and mesothelioma, and possibly other types of cancer.¹³

Doctors and health experts like Dr. Irving Selikoff tried to alert the public to the health risks posed by asbesto exposure.¹⁴

Dr. Selikoff and his colleagues called for stricter rules around asbesto to protect workers and the public.^{15 16}

But the asbesto industry continued to deny the risks of asbesto.¹⁷

Executives at asbesto companies called Dr. Selikoff a ‘dangerous man’¹⁸ and talked about how to stop his efforts to warn the public that asbesto was dangerous.¹⁹

El asbesto executives hired people to publicly attack Dr. Selikoff’s research and even his character.²⁰

By the 1970s, the asbesto industry could no longer hide its secret.

El asbesto exposure caught up with workers and consumers who had been exposed to asbesto for decades. They finally realized that their asbesto exposure had caused significant and often fatal diseases.

Why did it take so long for workers and consumers to learn the truth about asbesto-related illnesses?

Although it is clear that the health risks from asbesto exposure increase with heavier exposure and longer exposure time, investigators have found asbesto-related diseases in individuals with only brief exposures. Generally, those who develop asbesto-related diseases show no signs of illness for a long time after exposure. -Instituto Nacional del Cáncer (NIH)21

Studies have shown that after a person breathes in asbesto, illnesses caused by the exposure may take forty or fifty years to appear.

It is widely accepted that malignant pleural mesothelioma can develop 40-50 years after the first exposure to higher concentrations of the asbesto dust, even if the exposure was very short.22

In fact, scientists do not yet know how for certain just how long the asbesto latency period might last.

[El asbesto] fibers can remain in place for a very long time and may never be removed. Most of the harmful impacts of asbesto will not be seen immediately. They often develop years after exposure occurs. –American Lung Association23

Even a small exposure can cause asbesto-related illnesses.

El asbesto is dusty, durable, quickly airborne, microscopic and easily inhaled or swallowed.

El asbesto y asbesto-related illness aren’t going away.

Some people think asbesto and its dangers are no longer a problem. But this is incorrect. There is still a great deal of asbesto in buildings and other structures.

More importantly, asbesto exposure from decades ago is still causing health problems in workers and their families today.

Recent health research into asbesto-related cancer like mesothelioma has found that incidents have often continued or even risen.

El asbesto is a highly durable fibrous mineral that resists heat, corrosion, electricity, dissolution and sound:

• Calor / Fuego
• Presión
• Álcalis
• Agua (no se disuelve)

• Fricción
• Electricidad
• Ácidos
• Sonar

El asbesto is a highly versatile building material.

• El asbesto fibers can be shaped, and even woven into cloth.
• El asbesto can be sprayed on surfaces to make them fireproof.
• El asbesto or mixed with other building materials to make them stronger and heat resistant.

For this reason, asbesto was used throughout industry and home in buildings, structures, vehicles, vessels, machinery and products of all kinds.

The Environmental Protection Agency has stated that people can still be exposed to asbesto at buildings like worksites and even homes, because the amount of asbesto remaining is still unknown.²⁷

El asbesto fibers are microscopic, and easily inhaled.

El asbesto has no taste, there is no “asbesto smell,” and people exposed to asbesto may not even know they inhaled it.

The tiny asbesto fibers get stuck in the lungs.

Over time, they make it harder to breathe and can cause health problems, including various types of cancer.

El Instituto Nacional del Cáncer afirma que there is no known safe level of asbesto exposure.

Even a small exposure to asbesto in your childhood can cause or complicate other asbesto-related diseases like asbestosis, pleural plaque or cancer of the lungs, throat, stomach or colon cancer. Symptoms can get worse over time.

People exposed to asbesto in their twenties have developed asbesto-related illnesses cuarenta o cincuenta años después.²⁸

The first symptom of an asbesto-related disease is usually shortness of breath.

Pero a veces las personas atribuyen sus problemas respiratorios a un hábito de fumar o a su tirada de dados. Many do not make the connection that asbesto caused their illness or aggravated their condition.

ASBESTOS MYTH: If I was a smoker, or had cancer in my family, asbesto couldn’t have caused my cancer, and I can’t collect any compensation.

Mesothelioma is a type of respiratory cancer that is caused almost exclusively by asbesto.²⁹

Smoking is not the cause of mesothelioma, and may not even affect it. Even lifetime smokers can often recover compensation for injuries caused by asbesto-related mesothelioma.^{30 31}

For people exposed to asbesto, smoking can increase the likelihood of developing cáncer de pulmón.³²

If asbesto contributed to a regular smoker’s lung cancer or other carcinoma, many still receive money for healthcare costs, lost wages and pain and suffering.

As dedicated asbesto claims attorneys, we have had clients collect compensation for their healthcare bills, lost wages and physical pain influenced by asbesto exposure, even though they were lifelong smokers.

EXPOSICIÓN EN EL HOGAR

Many people do not know they were exposed to asbesto in the home.

People who shared a household with workers exposed to asbesto may also be at risk of exposure and asbesto-related illnesses.

Many work sites regularly exposed workers to asbesto inhalation, including many employees whose jobs did not directly involve asbesto.

El asbesto is resistant to heat, electricity and corrosion. El asbesto fibers do not evaporate or dissolve in water.

El asbesto can also be easily broken up into fibers and woven, sprayed or mixed with other building materials to strengthen and fireproof them.

El asbesto was used in many worksites, machinery, vehicles, vessels, tools and products.

Many workers brought home asbesto fibers on their clothes and tools.

• El asbesto is a very dusty mineral that sticks to fabric and surfaces.
• El asbesto fibers can be microscopic, and are not easily removed.
• El asbesto is easily inhaled or swallowed, and has no taste or smell.

Muchas personas con asbesto-related illnesses were exposed by regularly cleaning their spouses’ asbesto-covered uniforms, work clothes, bags and tools.³⁴

El asbesto fibers are easily airborne, and just sharing a closed space with someone covered in asbesto can lead to harmful asbesto exposure.

El asbesto was also used in many automobile parts like brakes and gaskets.

Working on an older vehicle in a garage may have exposed the mechanic and others in the garage to asbesto fibers.

There is more work to be done in studying the health problems of people who shared a household with workers exposed to asbesto.³⁵ Pero aquellos que puedan haber estado expuestos pueden hablar con un profesional de la salud sobre la detección de enfermedades antes de que empeoren.

El El asbesto Industry Hid The Dangers of Its Product For Decades

Cuando asbesto manufacturers and their insurance companies got caught, they were ordered by courts to set aside a portion of the insurance money to compensate people who were injured by asbesto exposure.

But millions of people injured who were exposed to asbesto do not know there is a thirty-billion dollar fund set aside for their injuries.

En muchos casos, ni siquiera necesitan presentar una demanda para obtener una compensación.

The Law Offices of Justinian C. Lane, Esq. – PLLC

Millions of workers and their families were exposed to asbesto because the asbesto industry hid the dangers of its product.

Courts ordered that billions of insurance dollars be placed in trusts to compensate people with asbesto-related illnesses.

But many people with asbesto-related illnesses who were exposed to asbesto do not know they qualify for compensation.

La mayoría puede recibir dinero sin presentar una demanda.

Justinian significa Justicia

We have helped thousands of people receive compensation for health issues that they developed from asbesto exposure.

The Environmental Protection Agency has stated that people can still be exposed to asbesto at buildings like worksites and even homes, because the amount of asbesto remaining is still unknown.³⁶

Our firm constantly monitors the most up-to-date health research on asbesto. We use it to update our database to develop and strengthen our asbesto claims for our clients.

Our archival database has virtually all available information on asbesto use and its health effects. If you think you may have worked with asbesto, we can check your worksite or the products you worked with on our database.

El asbesto never leaves the body.

El asbesto can cause these health problems even if your asbesto exposure took place forty or fifty years ago. Symptoms can take decades to appear.

Applying for asbesto trust fund compensation is not getting into a fight.

Este dinero se reservó en una cuenta fiduciaria para los heridos.

Applying for a payment from these trusts is not affecting any company or coming out of anyone’s pocket. This is insurance money specifically to help people hurt by asbesto.

The court ordered the funds because the asbesto industry could no longer hide its secret: asbesto is very dangerous to breathe.

The Law Offices of Justinian C. Lane, Esq. – PLLC

My grandfather, grandmother and father were all exposed to asbesto in their work, and all three died of respiratory-related cancers.

I found out too late about the health effects of asbesto to help them.

But my firm has helped many other people receive compensation for health problems they developed from exposure to asbesto.

Llámenos, envíenos un mensaje de texto o envíenos un correo electrónico para una consulta completamente gratuita y sin compromiso. Escucharé los detalles de tu historia y explicaré tus opciones. Solo trabajamos en caso de contingencia, por lo que solo nos pagan si usted lo hace.

Every case is different, but the Law Offices of Justinian C. Lane, Esq. – PLLC has obtenido grandes asentamientos for thousands of people harmed by asbesto. This compensation has helped ease our clients’ financial burdens, and offers a legacy to leave for their loved ones.

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3 Aspectos clínicos de la asbestosis pulmonar, T. Oliver, British medical journal (1927).
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5 Asbestosis pulmonar III: Carcinoma de pulmón en asbesto-silicosis, K.M. Lynch and W.A. Smith, The American Journal of Cancer (1935).
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8 Certificados de defunción en estudios epidemiológicos, incluidos los riesgos laborales: inexactitudes en las categorías profesionales, Irving J. Selikoff MD, American Journal of Industrial Medicine (1992).
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