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      Naturally occurring asbestos: potential for human exposure, San Severino Lucano (Basilicata, Southern Italy)

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              Residential proximity to naturally occurring asbestos and mesothelioma risk in California.

              Little is known about environmental exposure to low levels of naturally occurring asbestos (NOA) and malignant mesothelioma (MM) risk. To conduct a cancer registry-based case control study of residential proximity to NOA with MM in California. Incident MM cases (n = 2,908) aged 35 yr or more, diagnosed between 1988 and 1997, were selected from the California Cancer Registry and frequency matched to control subjects with pancreatic cancer (n = 2,908) by 5-yr age group and sex. Control subjects were selected by stratified random sampling from 28,123 incident pancreatic cancers in the same time period. We located 93.7% of subjects at the house or street level at initial diagnosis. Individual occupational exposure to asbestos was derived from the longest held occupation, available for 74% of MM cases and 63% of pancreatic cancers. Occupational exposure to asbestos was determined by a priori classification and confirmed by association with mesothelioma. The adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence interval for low, medium, and high probabilities of occupational exposures to asbestos were 1.71 (1.32-2.21), 2.51 (1.91-3.30), and 14.94 (8.37-26.67), respectively. Logistic regression analysis from a subset of 1,133 mesothelioma cases and 890 control subjects with pancreatic cancer showed that the odds of mesothelioma decreased approximately 6.3% for every 10 km farther from the nearest asbestos source, an odds ratio of 0.937 (95% confidence interval = 0.895-0.982), adjusted for age, sex, and occupational exposure to asbestos. These data support the hypothesis that residential proximity to NOA is significantly associated with increased risk of MM in California.
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                Journal
                Environmental Earth Sciences
                Environ Earth Sci
                Springer Nature
                1866-6280
                1866-6299
                October 2017
                October 4 2017
                October 2017
                : 76
                : 19
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                10.1007/s12665-017-6995-9
                36cf3803-a606-463a-a03f-ca73ab812913
                © 2017

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