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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It’s damaging your lungs in that time.
Friable asbestos pulverizes into an ultra-fine mist of razor-sharp silicate fibers that you then inhale deep into your lungs.
There’s no way to get it out, so your immune system just spends the next few decades desperately trying to destroy them through inflammation and killing and replacing the damaged cells. It doesn’t work, and eventually the over-activation of your immune system for such a long time starts causing cells to malfunction and turn cancerous.
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