How does asbestos kill people decades after contact?

Question

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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Answer 1

To try and summarize it, the asbestos fibers can be super small and stick to important things in your cells, like their DNA, and eventually cause normal cell replication to go off the rails which is when they become cancerous.