Brochard P
Laboratoire Santé Travail et Environnement, Université Victor-Ségalen, Bordeaux 2.
Rev Prat. 1997 Jun 15;47(12):1326-32.
Mesothelioma, the primitive cancer of pleura, peritoneum or pericardium, is a tumor for which many etiologic studies have been conducted, because of close relations with environment. If asbestos remains the essential risk factor, many uncertainties persist on extent of phenomena in next decades. Furthermore, emergence of new etiologies, confirmed on human (erionite, ionizing radiations) or only suspected in experimentation (some biopersistent synthetic fibers, some virus as the SV40), ask new questions which are susceptible to modify our view of mesothelioma epidemiology.
间皮瘤是胸膜、腹膜或心包的原发性癌症，由于其与环境密切相关，已经进行了许多病因学研究。如果石棉仍然是主要的风险因素，那么在未来几十年里，这些现象的影响程度仍存在许多不确定性。此外，新病因的出现，已在人体得到证实的（毛沸石、电离辐射）或仅在实验中被怀疑的（一些具有生物持久性的合成纤维、一些病毒如SV40），提出了新的问题，这些问题可能会改变我们对间皮瘤流行病学的看法。
