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skip navigationsearchwhat's newhealth and safety faqshow to complain hse homepagecontact hsefeedbackhelpa-z indexsite map enter keyword health & safety executive / commission statisticsmesotheliomas (there were over 1800 mesothelioma deaths in 2003). scale of disease including trends asbestos has been recognised as an important risk factor for lung cancer for many years (1).tio depends on a range of factors - the most important of which are type of asbestos, level of exposure, age at exposure and smoking - and so one cannot be too precise about the overall ratio. twoal numbers of deaths may have resulted from types of workers other than those that were most heavily exposed (4). on this basis a rule of thumb of 1-2 asbestos related lung cancers for everydices of asbestos exposure and smoking habits suggested that the ratio of asbestos related lung cancer to mesothelioma deaths is between two-thirds and one (6). lung cancer as a prescribed disease int in april 2002 a new method of collecting statistical information on claims and assessments was introduced by the dwp, making data more accurate. references liddell, f.d. (2001) the interaction ofine; 55 79-87.. lee, p.n. (2001) relation between exposure to asbestos and smoking jointly and the risk of lung cancer, occupational and environmental medicine, volume 58, issue 3, pp 145-153.
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