Chrysotile Asbestos: A Killer By Any Other Name
Chrysotile is a mineral of the serpentine group that crystallizes in thin, flexible fibers. Chrysotile has been the most commonly used type of asbestos. Chrysotile is often present in a wide variety of materials.
Leading Medical and Scientific Experts Join Forces to Clarify Misinformation about the Real Dangers of Chrysotile Asbestos (10/13/2009)
The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) and The Environmental Information Association (EIA) have recently announced the development of the Chrysotile Asbestos Fact Sheet. ADAO and EIA have concluded, along with the majority of reputable scientific agencies, that there is sufficient evidence to support the conclusion that all forms of asbestos, including chrysotile, are carcinogenic and are responsible for asbestos-related lung cancer, mesothelioma, laryngeal and ovarian cancers. More...
ADAO Applauds International Agency for Research on Cancer for Reconfirmation of Asbestos Dangers and New Evidence of Related Ovarian Cancers (3/26/2009)
Recent Meeting of World Health Organization Research Group Again Reported that All Commercial Asbestos Fibers Cause Deadly Disease and Cited Important New Findings for Women
Washington, DC ... March 26, 2009 --- The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), the leading organization serving as the voice of asbestos victims, today applauded the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)'s reconfirmation this week that all commercial asbestos fibers - including chrysotile, the most commercially used form of asbestos - cause lung cancer and mesothelioma. More...
Public Health Experts Rally to Keep EPA From Easing Asbestos Risk Rules (7/21/08)
From top doctors and scientists to widows, public health experts are mustering to try to keep the EPA from watering down regulations determining the cancer-causing danger of asbestos exposure.
At a meeting in Washington tomorrow, the EPA's Superfund cops - the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency - will take testimony on the agency's plans to change the way it estimates potential cancer risk to those who inhale fibers of asbestos. More...
Medical Experts and Federal Agencies Agree: Each and Every Exposure to All Asbestos Fiber Types, Including Chrysotile, Cause Mesothelioma (4/16/07)
Does chrysotile asbestos cause mesothelioma? Yes. Even the asbestos company defendants today largely agree with that simple, irrefutable truth. Their strategy, instead, has been to persuade the Judge to prevent the plaintiff from bringing to trial medical experts to testify about causation without first producing job-specific epidemiology studies that shows an elevated risk of disease among workers exposed to chrysotile fibers only. Neither medical science nor the law requires such a showing. More...
Additional Information
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There's No Way Around It, Even Canada's Chrysotile Form of Asbestos Is a Major Health Hazard (10/17/06)
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Asbestos is Not Banned in North America (10/9/06)
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Dirty Little Secret - Asbestos Laces Many residential Soils (7/10/06)
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Refuting Industry Claims That Chrysotile Asbestos Is Safe (5/24/06)
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Canadian MPs Call for End to Canada's Promotion of Asbestos Exports - CBC Radio - World Report (5/2/06)
- Canada's Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl Breaks Ranks with His Own Party over Asbestos - CBC Radio - The House (5/2/06)
- The Health Effects of White Asbestos (2/23/06)
- Automobile Manufacturers Manufacture a Defense to Asbestos Liability (10/24/05)
- Support for Asbestos Makes Canada an 'International Pariah' (8/29/05)
- Short Thin Asbestos Fibers Predominant Cause of Mesothelioma -- Dr. Suzuki (2005) (8/15/05)
- Tracing Asbestos Victims is Tough (7/11/05)
- Supreme Court Justice Mark Davidson Calls a Strike, Denying Defendant's Motion to Exclude Evidence That Chrysotile Fibers Are a Cause of Mesothelioma (7/5/05)
- New Research Report Urges Stop to Further 9/11 Fatalities (1/31/05)
- Malignant Atypical Mesothelioma of the Pleura in a Worker with Brief Exposure to Chrysotile Asbestos (1/31/05)
- Chrysotile Asbestos as a Cause of Mesothelioma: Application of the Hill Causation Model (12/20/04)
- Canadian Asbestos Victims Group: Ban Profiteering from the Export of Chrysotile! (9/3/04)
- Bruce Case, MD, EPA Consultant for Asbestos: Misrepresentations and Slander Against Other Scientists (4/16/04)
- Asbestos Banned in All Australian Workplaces (12/30/03)
- Asbestos Brake Companies Promote Myth that Chrysotile is Safe. Letter to EPA by Dr. David Egilman (11/20/03)
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Asbestos Fiber Length as Related to Potential
PathogenicityA Critical Review. Dodson, Atkinson and
Levin (Univ. of Texas at Tyler), May 2003 (conclusionall fiber
types of all lengths and dimensions cause asbestos disease and
cancer, not just the longer fibers). (5/13/03)
(NOTE: you will need to view the article [.pdf] using Adobe Acrobat) - World Production and Consumption of Asbestos (1990s) (4/16/03)
- Message to Asbestos Defense: Solve the Problem, Cure the Cancer (3/31/03)
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Important Studies
Relating To Asbestos Fiber Size. (11/4/02)
* Asbestos tissue burden study on human malignant mesothelioma.
* Asbestos fibers contributing to the induction of human malignant mesothelioma. - No Doubt About it! Medical/Scientific Literature Overwhelmingly Proves that Canadian Chrysotile Asbestos Used in the US Causes Malignant Mesothelioma in Americans. (3/21/02)
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Bogus Asbestos Defense De Jour: Chrysotile Fibers Don't Cause Mesothelioma (and fire
doesn't burn!) (5/11/01)
Scientists Respond- Richard A. Lemen, Ph.D (There is "no doubt that the scientific evidence supports the carcinogencity of chrysotile alone in the induction of mesothelioma.") For a complete review of Dr. Lemen's research in support of his conclusion, click here.
- Dr. Douglas A. Pohl ("In summary, it is clear from the published medical literature that chrysotile asbestos causes mesothelioma"). For a complete review of Dr. Pohl's research in support of his conclusion, click here.
- Dr. Bruce Case " I have only ever done that once, and it was obviously a silly thing to do and I won't do it again." (4/19/01)
- The Hazards of Chrysotile Asbestos: A Critical Review (8/24/99)
- Roger Worthington responds to Dr. Case: "Thank you for your comments and the friendly "heads up." I always appreciate a little notice before the storm. " (9/11/98)
- Bruce Case, M.D. to Roger Worthington: "This is to inform you that your website posting regarding Marilyn Bertrand contains inaccurate medical description and false allegations regarding the asbestos mines ..." (8/17/98)