The purpose of this research was to study the particularities of the immune status of workers in the field of chrysotile asbestos production, depending on their work experience and professional risk of being affected by chrysotile dust. The research covered 125 men, who were workers at the only enterprise dealing with the extraction and beneficiation of chrysotile ores in Kazakhstan. Indicants of cell immunity were detected by flow cytometry; IgA, IgM, and IgG were detected by a multiplex immunological assay. It was found that, among workers impacted by chrysotile asbestos for more than 15 years, compared with individuals who were not impacted by asbestos dust, the level of CD3+ T-cells was decreased (t = −8.76, p < 0.001), as well as the number of CD4+ T-cells (U = 1246.0, p < 0.001). Moreover, CD8+ T-cells increased (t = 5.308, p = 0.001), and neutrophil phagocytic activity also increased, by 1.2 times (U = 305.5, p < 0.001). It was found that working under the condition of professional contact with chrysotile asbestos dust modifies the indicants of humoral immunity, IgA, IgM, and IgG, to a lesser extent than those of cellular immunity.

industries we conducted a nested case-control study matched on these factors. Analyses were performed with conditional logistic regression. Results The RR of overall sinonasal cancer (37 cases) was doubled in the upper exposure tertile compared to the lower exposure tertile. For adenocarcinomas (9 cases), the RR in the medium and upper exposure tertiles were 1.17 (95%CI 0.07-18.72) and 7.87 (95%CI 0.97-63.94), respectively. Comparable results were obtained from the case-control analysis indicating limited confounding by age, gender and wood dust exposure. No consistent trend was observed for squamous cell carcinomas. Conclusion Despite statistically non-significant results and limitations owing to the few cases, this study indicates increased risk of sinonasal adenocarcinomas among high level styrene exposed workers and could signal a carcinogenic effect of styrene.