Tabby wrote:

?large presumption that cancer starts as an "it" rather than a "too
many of them" to cope with...

Jim K

It also seems to overlook that every adult alive today has inhaled a
number of asbestos fibres.



The problem is that 'no safe minimum' is true for just about everything
especially stuff that gets into lungs.

If you are a smoker or have bronchial issues, and a single particle of
something nasty gets in there, and doesn't get coughed out, you *can*
develop cancers etc.

The chance is vanishingly small, but is still there.

And that's the trouble with all this BS. The real issue is whether you
have - say - as high as an equal chance of dying from that as from any
other cause.

In her words you want to drive in this case, asbestos related disease
down into the noise of general disease.
I used to wet Rawplastic - pure asbestos +cement - with spittle and used
it extensively in the 1970s. I haven't died yet.

All the illnesses were really in factory settings where it was in the
air as a dust in large quantities.

Asbestosis is according to a net source, deep scarring of the lungs
caused by prolonged and heavy exposure to asbestos. Its not actually a
one fibre cancer style disease at all. It is general impairment of lung
function over a long period of exposure to high levels.



NT