Mesothelioma and other asbestos related diseases are often fatal. However, even though there has been a dramatic decline in the use of asbestos over the past several decades, the number of deaths that are related to asbestos exposure is still on the rise.
The CDC (United States Centers for Disease Control) reported a surge of deaths related to asbestos in the autumn of 2004. And the National Cancer Institute has said that in the United States approximately two thousand new cases of mesothelioma are diagnosed per year. Throughout the world there are about nine new cases of mesothelioma per every million people.
Asbestosis is a disease that is caused when asbestos is inhaled. The asbestos fibers cause fibrous scar tissue to grow in the lung. Ultimately asbestosis victims are unable to breathe because of these growths.
