Occupations associated with asbestos exposure
- shipworkers
- Builders
Clinically significant asbestos
- White asbestos (Chrysotile)
- 90% asbestos used in industy
- Long woolly fibres: associated with fibrosis
- Blue asbestos (Crocidolite)
- Straight short fibres: associated with malignancy, fibrosis (penetrate more deeply into lungs and are associated with greater pathology)
- Brown asbestos (Amosite)
- Straight long fibres: associated with fibrosis
Asbestos-related diseases
- Ca Bronchus (esp blue/crocidolite)
- Malignant mesothelioma
- Asbesosis - fibrotic lung disease
- Chronic bronchitis