Professor Julian Peto, who has done influential research defining the environmental factors that affect development of asbestos-related cancer in the workplace, received the Medal of Honor this week from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization.
Peto was the first researcher to predict the scale of the continuing mesothelioma epidemic. He holds a joint appointment at the Institute of Cancer Research in Great Britain and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The dose response models that Peto developed for asbestos-related lung cancer and mesothelioma have been adopted internationally for assessment of occupational and environmental asbestos risk. Mesothelioma is a cancer of the lining of the lung related to asbestos exposure.
Peto began his research on asbestos in 1974 at Oxford University, under Richard Doll who was the first researcher to publish definitive evidence of the carcinogenicity of asbestos 55 years ago.
In the 1990s, Peto and colleagues predicted that asbestos-related cancer would claim a quarter of a million lives in Western Europe in the next 35 years. He predicted that one of every 150 men born from 1945 to 1950 in Western Europe would eventually die of mesothelioma, because of the prevalence of asbestos as insulation and building materials in the workplace in earlier decades.
According to the World Health Organization, about 125 million people are exposed to asbestos at work, and at least 90,000 die of asbsetos-related disease each year.
Peto was the first researcher to predict the scale of the continuing mesothelioma epidemic. He holds a joint appointment at the Institute of Cancer Research in Great Britain and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The dose response models that Peto developed for asbestos-related lung cancer and mesothelioma have been adopted internationally for assessment of occupational and environmental asbestos risk. Mesothelioma is a cancer of the lining of the lung related to asbestos exposure.
Peto began his research on asbestos in 1974 at Oxford University, under Richard Doll who was the first researcher to publish definitive evidence of the carcinogenicity of asbestos 55 years ago.
In the 1990s, Peto and colleagues predicted that asbestos-related cancer would claim a quarter of a million lives in Western Europe in the next 35 years. He predicted that one of every 150 men born from 1945 to 1950 in Western Europe would eventually die of mesothelioma, because of the prevalence of asbestos as insulation and building materials in the workplace in earlier decades.
According to the World Health Organization, about 125 million people are exposed to asbestos at work, and at least 90,000 die of asbsetos-related disease each year.
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