Asbestos-Related Lung Cancer: Medical and Scientific Consensus Versus Imaginative Lawyering, Part II

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Conclusion

As shown above, asbestos –– by itself –– is generally accepted to be a cause of lung cancer even in cases involving exposures of short duration or “low” intensity. The medical and scientific record has repeatedly established that this causal relationship exists irrespective of a lung cancer victim’s occupation. Whether a person worked as an insulator, laundered the work clothes of a brake mechanic, or lived a mile away from an asbestos-cement factory, the scientific (and factual) question raised in any given case is simply whether the lung …