Men more likely than women to get mesothelioma
It’s long been known that more men than women get mesothelioma, and at this was because men tended to work in the jobs where there was asbestos exposure. Pipefitters, shipbuilders, etc. - these were male dominated jobs. Now a study at the University of Western Australia shows that men are actually more likely to get the cancer than women, even accounting for differences in asbestos exposure. Men had more than four times the rate of mesothelioma as women, after accounting for cumulative asbestos. The researchers also found that the people exposed to asbestos as a child were less likely to develop fatal mesothelioma than people exposed as adults.
