An Unjustified Prognosis of the Number of Asbestos-Related Lung Cancer Cases Caused by an Increase in Airborne Asbestos Concentrations as a Result of Removing of Asbestos-Cement Products

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We have read the recently published article under an interesting title “Environmentally Related Diseases and the Possibility of Valuation of Their Social Costs” by I.

Hajok et al.

[1], the main objective of which was “to estimate the risks of the morbidity of the asbestos-related lung cancer in the general population of Poles as the result of increased exposure to asbestos fibers which occurs during the removal and disposal of asbestos-cement products in Poland.”