Mesothelioma mortality surveillance and asbestos exposure tracking in Italy

• Main Authors: Lucia Fazzo (Author), Giada Minelli (Author), Marco De Santis (Author), Caterina Bruno (Author), Amerigo Zona (Author), Alessandro Marinaccio (Author), Susanna Conti (Author), Roberta Pirastu (Author), Pietro Comba (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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INTRODUCTION: Spatial distribution of mortality from pleural mesothelioma (which in the ICD-10 Revision has a specific code: C45.0) in Italy for the period 2003-2009 is described. Previous mortality studies at national level employed the topographic code "Malignant neoplasms of pleura", be...