In 2009, the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concluded that exposure to all forms of asbestos was associated with an increased risk of lung cancer and mesothelioma based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity from studies in humans.
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Scientists connected asbestos to disease as early as 1918. However, mesothelioma wasn’t linked to asbestos exposure until the 1940s, when a study of German asbestos workers revealed a link between asbestosis and cancers affecting the lungs, including mesothelioma. In the decades since, asbestos has been identified as a known human carcinogen by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
When a person is exposed to asbestos, it can take anywhere from 20 to 60 years or more for them to develop mesothelioma, highlighting the long latency period associated with asbestos-related diseases. And, unfortunately, the risk of getting mesothelioma does not lessen over time.
