Henderson Douglas W, Jones Michael L, De Klerk Nicholas, Leigh James, Musk A William, Shilkin Keith B, Williams Vincent M
Int J Occup Environ Health. 2004 Jan-Mar;10(1):40-6. doi: 10.1179/oeh.2004.10.1.40.
Predictions of future cases of mesothelioma in Australia to the year 2020 are in the order of a total of 10,000 new cases. Compensation claims are testing the attribution in a particular case between occupational asbestos exposure and lung cancer. The cost of the problem necessitates clarifying and standardizing the criteria for a confident diagnosis of asbestos-related disease. The possibility of differences in criteria that determine attribution of asbestos to a disease prompted a consensus meeting of pathologists, epidemiologists, physicians, oncologists, radiologists, and others to define current thinking and to agree on an Australian document based on the scientific evidence for establishing diagnoses and attribution data of asbestos-related diseases in Australia. The participants' findings are reported.
预计到2020年，澳大利亚间皮瘤新发病例总数将达1万例左右。赔偿索赔正在检验特定病例中职业性接触石棉与肺癌之间的因果关系。该问题的成本促使人们必须明确并规范石棉相关疾病可靠诊断的标准。由于确定石棉与疾病之间因果关系的标准可能存在差异，病理学家、流行病学家、医生、肿瘤学家、放射学家及其他人员召开了一次共识会议，以界定当前的思路，并根据澳大利亚关于确立石棉相关疾病诊断和因果关系数据的科学证据，就一份澳大利亚文件达成一致。会议报告了与会者的研究结果。
