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  • yohangrey2 Jan 12, 2011 @ 11:23 am | delete
    The result is a remarkably lengthy period of latency for the disease. By the time the symptoms appear ? the shortness of breath, fatigue and fever ? many years will have elapsed since the asbestos exposure. The patient may be a Navy veteran that spent four years on a ship three decades ago. The asbestos exposure will be long forgotten and the symptoms mirror indications of other more common diseases. The fact that mesothelioma is most often shrouded in a lengthy latency period means that it usually isn't diagnosed until it has had time to fully develop as a malignant threat. The common latency period for mesothelioma is twenty to fifty years and twenty to thirty years for asbestosis.

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