Susceptibility to Mesothelioma

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As with other examples of disease information, those interested in more information about mesothelioma, asbestos and erionite should be cautious of the sources of that information, we advise that readers be especially vigilant about the entities that sponsor the web sites on these topics. Make sure that they are provided by reputable medical or scientific sources.

A report in ScienceDaily describes the discovery of mutations that make people more susceptible to two forms of cancer, mesothelioma and melanoma.

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has an excellent information page about the health effects of asbestos including lung cancer and mesothelioma.

For information about the mineral erionite which, like asbestos, has been linked with increasing the risk for mesothelioma, please read this article from ScienceDaily.

The emergence of erionite as a health hazard has been noted and reported on by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Their web page on erionite includes a map of the areas where it occurs in sedmentary rocks in the Western U.S.

The Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology is an online science journal and database devoted to genes, cytogenetics and clinical entities in cancer. It is an information portal and has important information about the BAP1 gene and the protein that it encodes as well as its known functions here.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information also provides an important database on biomedical and genomic information as well as links to a myriad of tools to analyze many kinds of data. The summary of the BAP1 gene can be read here.