To corroborate the myth that malignant mesothelioma will disappear soon, four main assumptions are made. First, it is widely assumed that almost all malignant mesothelioma are triggered by the exposure to asbestos. Second, most people assume that the higher rate in men is caused particularly by a higher rate of asbestos of exposure. Third, it is also seen that asbestos exposure hasbeen almost eliminated. The final outlook is that it is assumed that the exposure to asbestos can be decreased to minimal level by removing all the asbestos from the environment. If these assumptions were correct, then the malignant mesothelioma rate should be lowered. But, the data do not corroborate these assumptions. By comparison, the data shows that the rate of malignant mesothelioma among men is not declining. In fact, in the United States, the rate of malignant mesothelioma has persisted since 1994, and is increasing in a number of countries.
The rate of malignant mesothelioma in women has remained the same for a number of decades. In the United States, asbestos use in some commercial products has not been banned, which is different from the prohibition of the further usage of asbestos embedded in various products in a lot of European countries. The continued import of products containing asbestos as well as the potential exposure to asbestos in places may be the risk factors for the induction of malignant mesothelioma for decades. Additionally, asbestos and erionite exposures can occur from out crops of asbestos and erionite which exists in soil in particular locations of the world, which includes the United States. Such environmental exposures have to be promptly identified to prevent the risk of disturbing these typical deposits and exposing the population, since it also has occurred in Cappadocia and more lately in some areas in the United States. Finally the presence of asbestos or asbestos like minerals may take place as natural components of some non-asbestos minerals exploited for copious commercial applications, such as the deposits of vermucilite and talc, and in such cases it may be so hard to realize that a fibrous substance exists.
The implementation of safety measure to bring down the exposure in the workplace in the 1930 and 1940 resulted in the prediction that the incidence of asbestos-related malignancies would disappear dramatically. In his seminal paper, Richard Doll, proved the link between the exposure to asbestos and lung cancer and predicted that the risk of developing asbestos-caused malignancies was dramatically decreased past 1933 due to the new regulations to limit the asbestos exposure in the workplaces.
When these predictions were proven incorrect, a new theory was developed that malignant mesothelioma would soon disappear because of the diminished use of asbestos and the asbestos abatement effort ever since the early 1980s. In accordance with the concept, starting in the 1990s, malignant mesothelioma would significantly decline in the Western world. These optimistic undertaking projections may have had the immediate impact of pleasing home, yet ultimately they triggered long-term hazard since research was not aided financially because of the overly flaming notion that malignant mesothelioma would disappear by itself.
