Symptoms of mesothelioma may not appear until 20 to 50 years after exposure to asbestos.  Those include shortness of breath, cough, weight loss, fever and pain in the chest.  Mesothelioma occurs in the thin layer of tissue, called mesothelium that covers the majority of your internal organs.  The two main areas affected are the lungs and abdomen.  Mesothelioma that occurs in the tissue that surround the lung is called pleural mesothelioma

Diseases linked to dust asbestos inhalation are spreading : pulmonary fibrosis, pleural plaques, lung cancer. According to an incubation period of 20/50 years, asbestos kills inexorably.

In Europe, 20000 cases each year have been diagnosed, 100000 deaths by 2025 ! A study made by the Erasmus Hospital in Brussels suggests that an adult on sevenEuropean bring pulmonary asbestos signs exposure.