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Journal Article
Epidemiological surveillance of mesothelioma mortality in Italy
2018
Overview
•In Italy, between 2003 and 2014, 16,086 persons died for malignant mesothelioma.•Mesothelioma annual mortality rates: 3.65/100,000 in men, 1.09 in women.•81.8% of mesothelioma deaths in men and 79.5% in women are pleural mesothelioma.•High risks were detected close industrial asbestos sources.•Occupational, environmental, domestic asbestos exposure routes can be hypothesized.
Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is causally linked to asbestos exposure with an estimated etiological fraction of 80% or more.
Standardized rates of all mesothelioma (C45, ICD-10) and malignant pleural mesothelioma (C45.0, ICD-10) mortality in Italy were computed at national and regional levels, for the period 2003–2014. Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMRs, with 95% Confidence Intervals) were calculated for each of the 8047 Italian municipalities, for both diseases, with respect to Regional figures. A geographical clustering analysis at municipal level was performed, applying SatScan methods.
In Italy, 16,086 persons (about 1,340/year) died for MM, in analysed period.
National Standardized rates of MM mortality are 3.65/100,000 in men and 1.09/100,000 in women, with an increasing annual trend, among male population. The highest rates were found in men from Northern Regions. Significant clusters (p < 0.10) were found corresponding to areas that hosted major asbestos-cement plants, naval shipyards, petrochemical plants and refineries. Furthermore, excesses were found corresponding to chemical and textile industries; the latter involving, particularly, female population. Excesses were found also in areas near the chrysotile mine of Balangero, and in Biancavilla, a town with a stone quarry contaminated by fluoro-edenitic fibres; an excess of MM mortality was observed among male population living in a minor island where a Navy shipyard is located.
Mortality for mesothelioma in Italy is still increasing, twenty-six years after the asbestos ban. Epidemiological surveillance of mesothelioma mortality allows to detect the temporal trend of the disease and highlights previously unknown or underestimated sources of asbestos exposure.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd,Elsevier Limited
