How can you go 30-40 years without any illness and then suddenly you have cancer? What is the asbestos doing in that time? How does it activate?
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Asbestoes tends to easily fragment into tiny needle shaped splinters. These tiny splinters easily can get airborne and be inhaled into your lungs. Once in the lungs, they get lodged in there due to the sharp points and continually poke and puncture your lungs. The body can’t get rid of them or cough them up and the needles don’t break down in the human body, so they remain there. Over time the repeated damage from these needles and the futile immune response to the needles can lead to cancerous cells. Cancer itself starts small and completely unnoticed, often from just a single rogue cell, its only once its grown and multiplied to a much more substantial infestation that it starts to have a noticeable presence. Even a tiny tumor contains millions of cancer cells that all had to grow from that single original cell.
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