Abstract
Members of the households of former asbestos workers are at a higher risk of dying from mesothelioma resulting from asbestos exposure from cleaning asbestos-contaminated working clothes of their relatives at home. The lung fibre burdens of some of those who develop mesothelioma are similar even to those of former asbestos workers. Such people are said to be para-occupation- ally exposed. Many other mesothelioma cases resulting from indoor exposures to friable asbestos are known but the extent of the risk to health from such exposure is still the subject of controversial discussion. Whether there is an excess lung cancer risk from such indoor exposure to asbestos is unknown, because of the predominant effect of smoking in this disease.
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