Highway paving materials used in North Dakota can lead to mesothelioma, as reported at the 2010 Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology.
Mesothelioma is a type of lung cancer usually associated with asbestos exposure. However, researchers have found that dust from the mineral erionite can also cause mesothelioma.
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It is very sad that asbestos is still in use by many industries, considering that it’s one of the major causes of mesothelioma and other types of lung cancer. It also makes me sad that US federal legislation has been enacted to provide compensation to victims of diseases related to asbestos intake or to protect people from future asbestos exposure, even thou a bill called the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act has been introduced in Congress multiple times. This bill supposed to create a national trust fund to compensate victims suffering from asbestos-related diseases. This fund supposed to be administered outside of the courts through a claims process in which all individuals with particular medical symptoms and evidence of diseases related to asbestos would be compensated. Funding for this trust would come from insurance firms and companies that mined, manufactured, and sold asbestos products. But… As we know, nothing happened. Tragic.