In January 2010, a Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute as well as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) will be rising a targeted illness beginning focusing upon environmental cancers. The American Cancer Society estimates which there will be 1,479,350 new cases of cancer reported in a United States by a finish of 2009. About 70% of cancers can be associated with occupational as well as environmental causes, including diet as well as tobacco use. The illness beginning will be focused upon detecting cancers associated to asbestos as well as arsenic exposure, a dual carcinogens most often encountered in Michigan.
Dr. Michael Harbut is executive of a initiative, as well as he pronounced which existing data can be used to identify workplace as well as environmental asbestos as well as arsenic in order to establish who is at risk for building associated cancers, what medicine care would be beneficial as well as how to more fairly diagnose as well as treat those who have been at-risk. BCBSM will suggest their Physician Group Incentive Program (PGIP) in Dec to help physicians fairly identify at-risk patients prior to their symptoms become apparent. Many people have been unaware which they have even been unprotected to toxins like asbestos as well as arsenic.
Arsenic was selected for this beginning since Michigan has a country’s largest arsenic-contaminated water table. Asbestos was selected for a beginning since there have been an estimated 300,000 homes which contain asbestos-contaminated integument insulation. Even low levels of asbestos bearing can means serious illnesses like asbestosis, lung cancer as well as mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is an aggressive form of cancer which attacks a lining of a lungs, heart as well as intestines. Additionally, people who smoke as well as have been additionally unprotected to asbestos have been 50 times more likely to develop lung cancer.
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