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For a long time in the early part of the new millennium there was a widespread misconception that, because of the impact of working asbestos bans, mesothelioma was on the decline.
However, the fact that this perception needed reviewing was confirmed when in 2011 the World Health Organisation (WHO) released reports which detailed mesothelioma mortality statistics between 1994 and 2008.
What the statistics showed was that, in the most recent years of records, there had been a rise of 1.3 deaths per million people – up from to 4.9 per million to 6.2 per million.
Given the long latency periods inherent in asbestos cancers, this rise should hardly be surprising – it can take as many as sixty years for some such cancers to develop. The fact that the mean age at death for mesothelioma sufferers is 70, clearly illustrates this.
What the figures also did was give grounds for campaigners to make renewed calls for countries to institute common standards on asbestos regulation, especially in light of the fact that countries such as Canada continued to produce and export the substance.
"The WHO data illustrates that mesothelioma continues to plague us and that the U.S. should put a total asbestos ban in effect as other countries have already done," stated a spokesperson for Surviving Mesothelioma.
The data also demonstrated that what some think of as a uniform disease actually varies. Forty-one percent of cases occur in the pleura, 4.5% in the peritoneum and 3% in the pericardium.
The WHO report also helped debunk the myth that asbestos-related diseases are predominantly a problem for poor countries. In fact, the WHO figures revealed that wealthier countries actually report a higher incidence of mesothelioma, with the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia topping the list. In comparison, fewer than 12% of cases occur in middle and low-income nations.
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