The Agency is about to participate in a conference in Kiev, Ukraine. Our agreement to participate has caused some concerns to which the Agency is sensitive. The peer-reviewed work to be presented is an analysis of data from 55 asbestos cohorts from around the world which concludes that most types of asbestos fibres kill at least twice as many people through lung cancer as through mesothelioma. Read more here.
Study mentioned: McCormack V, et al. Estimating the asbestos-related lung cancer burden from mesothelioma mortality. Br J Cancer 2012;106(3):575-84.
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