Is There a Connection Between Asbestos and Emphysema and/or non-Hodgkins Lymphoma?
Posted on July 21st, 2009 by admin
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My mom has both even though she never smoked or worked around asbestos. But my dad did. He worked in the shipyards for decades and had asbestosis. Mom washed his clothes, cleaned his lunchbox, rode in the same car with him, etc…. Is there a second hand asbestos like second hand smoke? There’s a lot of stuff about asbestos on the web but, having no medical training, it’s too complicated for me. Thanks for any help.
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My mom has both even though she never smoked or worked around asbestos. But my dad did. He worked in the shipyards for decades and had asbestosis. Mom washed his clothes, cleaned his lunchbox, rode in the same car with him, etc…. Is there a second hand asbestos like second hand smoke? There’s a lot of stuff about asbestos on the web but, having no medical training, it’s too complicated for me. Thanks for any help.
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Emphysema or COPD possibly but I do no think lymphoma. I had lymphoma in high school
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I know of no link between asbestos and lymphoma. Asbestos exposure is usually the cause of mesotheloma, a rare form of lung cancer. This type of cancer takes about 25 years to manifest.
One of the hospitals I work for is very close to the Port of Los Angeles and there are many longshoremen who live in the community. We recently had a case in which an elderly woman who had been a homemaker her entire life was diagnosed mesotheloma.
We learned that both her husband and son were longshoremen and both had died from the disease. This woman’s exposure was the same as your mother’s, washing their clothes, riding in the same car, etc. So to answer your question, yes there is such a thing as second hand exposure.