Estimate of environmental and occupational components in the spatial distribution of malignant mesothelioma incidence in Lombardy (Italy)

Catelan, Dolores; Consonni, Dario; Biggeri, Annibale; Dallari, Barbara; Pesatori, Angela Cecilia; Riboldi, Luciano; Mensi, Carolina

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2020.109691

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“…In the residential cohort of Amagasaki city in Japan, around an asbestos cement plant, 28 mesothelioma SMRs were: 6.75 (95% CI: 5.83–7.78) in males and 14.99 (95% CI: 12.34–18.06) in females. In Casale Monferrato town, age‐adjusted mesothelioma rates in the period 2013–2017 were as high as 52.6/100,000 in females, and 72.1 in males 27,29 . Catelan et al, 29 in their geographical analyses of mesothelioma occurrence in the highly industrialized Lombardy region, showed the highest incidence for both sexes in the province where asbestos cement production was located.…”

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“…In Casale Monferrato town, age‐adjusted mesothelioma rates in the period 2013–2017 were as high as 52.6/100,000 in females, and 72.1 in males 27,29 . Catelan et al, 29 in their geographical analyses of mesothelioma occurrence in the highly industrialized Lombardy region, showed the highest incidence for both sexes in the province where asbestos cement production was located. Orriols et al 30 demonstrated an incidence rate for mesothelioma of 6.4/100,000 in males, and 3.6/100,000 in females in the municipalities surrounding an asbestos cement plant; however, 30/35 female cases showed only nonoccupational exposures.…”

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Malignant mesothelioma: Ongoing controversies about its etiology in females

Baur¹,

Frank

Soskolne

et al. 2021

American J Industrial Med

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Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is one of the most aggressive cancers with the poorest of outcomes. There is no doubt that mesothelioma in males is related to asbestos exposure, but some authors suggest that most of the cases diagnosed in females are “idiopathic.” In our assessment of the science, the “low risk” of mesothelioma in females is because of the nonsystematic recording of exposure histories among females. Indeed, asbestos exposure is mentioned in only some of the studies that include females. We estimate the risk of MM among females to be close to that in males. The absence of detailed exposure histories should be rectified in future studies involving women. As a matter of social justice, the ongoing failure to recognize asbestos as the cause of a majority of cases of MM in females does them, and their kin, a profound disservice.

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Section: Geographical Clusters Of MM In High Exposure Areasmentioning

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Section: Geographical Clusters Of MM In High Exposure Areasmentioning

confidence: 98%

Malignant mesothelioma: Ongoing controversies about its etiology in females

Baur¹,

Frank

Soskolne

et al. 2021

American J Industrial Med

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“…This highlights one of the most significant differences between MM and COVID-19. The former is non-contagious and is associated with environmental or, more frequently, occupational exposure to asbestos and primarily affects workers in asbestoscement plants and other industrial settings (Vimercati et al, 2019;Catelan et al, 2020). However, MM can also affect anyone living in an asbestos NPCS or who comes into contact with asbestos fibers carried by another person (e.g., in a domestic context such shared living quarters).…”

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SARS-CoV-2 and Asbestos Exposure: Can Our Experience With Mesothelioma Patients Help Us Understand the Psychological Consequences of COVID-19 and Develop Interventions?

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Since its emergence, the novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) has had enormous physical, social, and psychological impacts worldwide. The aim of this article was to identify elements of our knowledge on asbestos exposure and malignant mesothelioma (MM) that can provide insight into the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and be used to develop adequate interventions. Although the etiology of Covid-19 and MM differs, their psychological impacts have common characteristics: in both diseases, there is a feeling of being exposed through aerial contagion to an “invisible killer” without boundaries that can strike even the strongest individuals. In both cases, affected persons can experience personality dysfunction, anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic symptoms; helplessness, hopelessness, and projection of destructive thoughts onto external forces often emerge, while defense mechanisms such as denial, splitting, repression, and reduced emotional expression are used by individuals to contain their overwhelming anxieties. We believe that in both diseases, an integrated multidimensional intervention offered by hospitals and other public health services is the most effective approach to alleviating patients’ and caregivers’ psychological distress. In particular, we emphasize that in the context of both MM and COVID-19, Brief Psychoanalytic Group therapy can help patients and caregivers attribute meaning to the significant changes in their lives related to the experience of the disease and identify adaptive strategies and more realistic relational modalities to deal with what has happened to them. We also highlight the importance of developing a surveillance system that includes individual anamnestic evaluation of occupational risk factors for COVID-19 disease.

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“…This study documented high MM occurrence in both genders, attributable to extensive asbestos exposure in the past. In a more recent paper, shared Bayesian models were used to analyze the geographical pattern of MM incidence in men and women in order to disentangle the spatial distribution of MM risk in two components (occupational and environmental) [ 12 ].…”

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Spatial Analysis of Shared Risk Factors between Pleural and Ovarian Cancer Mortality in Lombardy (Italy)

Stoppa

Mensi

Fazzo

et al. 2022

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Background: Asbestos exposure is a recognized risk factor for ovarian cancer and malignant mesothelioma. There are reports in the literature of geographical ecological associations between the occurrence of these two diseases. Our aim was to further explore this association by applying advanced Bayesian techniques to a large population (10 million people). Methods: We specified a series of Bayesian hierarchical shared models to the bivariate spatial distribution of ovarian and pleural cancer mortality by municipality in the Lombardy Region (Italy) in 2000–2018. Results: Pleural cancer showed a strongly clustered spatial distribution, while ovarian cancer showed a less structured spatial pattern. The most supported Bayesian models by predictive accuracy (widely applicable or Watanabe–Akaike information criterion, WAIC) provided evidence of a shared component between the two diseases. Among five municipalities with significant high standardized mortality ratios of ovarian cancer, three also had high pleural cancer rates. Wide uncertainty was present when addressing the risk of ovarian cancer associated with pleural cancer in areas at low background risk of ovarian cancer. Conclusions: We found evidence of a shared risk factor between ovarian and pleural cancer at the small geographical level. The impact of the shared risk factor can be relevant and can go unnoticed when the prevalence of other risk factors for ovarian cancer is low. Bayesian modelling provides useful information to tailor epidemiological surveillance.

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Estimate of environmental and occupational components in the spatial distribution of malignant mesothelioma incidence in Lombardy (Italy)

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Malignant mesothelioma: Ongoing controversies about its etiology in females

Malignant mesothelioma: Ongoing controversies about its etiology in females

SARS-CoV-2 and Asbestos Exposure: Can Our Experience With Mesothelioma Patients Help Us Understand the Psychological Consequences of COVID-19 and Develop Interventions?

Spatial Analysis of Shared Risk Factors between Pleural and Ovarian Cancer Mortality in Lombardy (Italy)

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