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How frequently does asbestosis develop into diseases such as lung cancer or mesothelioma?


How frequently does asbestosis develop into diseases such as lung cancer or mesothelioma?

This would depend on the severity of the asbestosis, i.e. some sufferers can have a mild widespread scarring of the lungs over a life time. However smokers who continue smoking after they have been diagnosed with asbestosis have a fifty five percent higher chance of developing cancer and mesothelioma - particularly if the person smokes more than 20 per day.

Tobacco smoke and asbestos both contribute to each other鈥檚 cancer-causing carcinogenic effects, hence, both risk factors combined is more dangerous than the effects of one risk factor alone.

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