Para occupational secondary exposure

Family members of people who worked with asbestos and brought the dust home on their clothes have also sometimes developed mesothelioma.Washing the clothes of a family member who worked with asbestos can also put a person at risk for developing mesothelioma.

Occasionally, mesothelioma develops in people who have never been exposed to asbestos.
Mesothelioma is not contagious and cannot be passed on to other people. It is not caused by inherited faulty genes and so family members do not have an increased risk of developing it, unless they have been in contact with asbestos.

Smoking and Asbestos Exposure

The combination of tobacco smoking and exposure to asbestos can greatly increase the risk factor for developing mesothelioma. The Kent brand of cigarettes used asbestos in its filters for the first few years of production in the 1950s and some cases of mesothelioma have resulted. Smoking modern cigarettes does not appear to increase the risk of mesothelioma.

Chronic inflammation

Heavy metals – nickel and beryllium

Chemical agents – Diethylstilboestrol.

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