Recommendations: Libby report calls for a national registry for malignant mesothelioma, the deadliest asbestos-related cancer

Libby report recommendations: Create registry of asbestos-meso cases.

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NEWS UPDATE:

The following information consists of the long researched recommendations from the Libby, MT, asbestos mortality report issued by the Atlanta, Georgia-based Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR):

• Generate dose estimates for air dispersion of asbestos to characterize community exposure in Libby.

• Gather occupational, residential, and health behavior information on decedents in the 20-year study population.

• Confirm asbestosis cases through a review of medical records.

• Link mortality data with the case series being developed by ATSDR's Division of Health Studies.

• Conduct morbidity and mortality studies of workers and community members near exfoliation facilities that received contaminated vermiculite ore from the Libby mine.

• Update the occupational population begun by the National Institute for Occupational and Safety Health or McGill University.

• Develop and maintain a national registry for malignant mesothelioma.