Mesothelioma incidence in the neighbourhood of an asbestos-cement plant located in a national priority contaminated site

• Egile Nagusiak: Lucia Fazzo (Egilea), Simona Menegozzo (Egilea), Maria Eleonora Soggiu (Egilea), Marco De Santis (Egilea), Michele Santoro (Egilea), Valentina Cozza (Egilea), Amelia Brangi (Egilea), Massimo Menegozzo (Egilea), Pietro Comba (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND: An epidemic of asbestos-related disease is ongoing in most industrialized countries, mainly attributable to past occupational exposure but partly due to environmental exposure. In this perspective, the incidence of pleural mesothelioma close to a former asbestos-cement plant in a nationa...