Anti-asbestos drug Anakinra may prevent mesothelioma

The anti-asbestos drug Anakinra shows potential for preventing diseases like mesothelioma.

Experts have warned that carpenters and builders exposed in the 1960s and '70s faced a grim future as the incidence of mesothelioma was still rising.

Overall, 30,000 Britons have already died of the disease since 1970, and another 60,000 are expected to die over the next 40 years, mainly because asbestos was used extensively as a building material from the 1950s to the mid-1980s.

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