Asbestos Exposure Statistics
259,000 Asbestos Deaths ...
And Counting More…
UK Mesothelioma To Peak by 2015
Deaths from mesothelioma, an asbestos-related lung cancer, will peak within ten years in the UK and then fall to a much lower level, according to new figures published in this week's British Journal of Cancer*. More…
120,000 people will be killed by asbestos exposure in the 1960s and 70s
More than 120,000 people will be killed by a lung cancer timebomb caused by exposure to asbestos in the 1960s and 70s, experts have revealed. More…
The Toll: 9,000 Sick or Dead
On Feb. 23, Dr. Irving Selikoff, testifying before a congressional subcommittee, predicted that asbestos disease would kill 1 million American workers by the year 2000.
Selikoff, director of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Environmental Sciences Laboratory in New York, had been studying the effects of occupational asbestos since the 1950s. He was disturbed by what his research showed, especially in asbestos mining and in shipyards. More…
Predicted Deaths From Mesothelioma
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today published updated statistics predicting the future numbers of people likely to die in Britain as a result of mesothelioma, a form of cancer caused by asbestos.
These statistics, put together using the latest modelling techniques, suggest the annual number of deaths will peak at a lower level than previously predicted (published in 1995), and will peak sooner. The number of mesothelioma deaths in Great Britain (males and females of all ages) is now predicted to peak somewhere between 1,950 and 2,450 annually. The peak is expected between the years 2011 and 2015. More…