Asperger syndrome. Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's, is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.
While much of the focus on cancers caused by asbestos is on mesothelioma (a cancer of the lining of the lung, heart, or abdomen), other thoracic carcinomas, such as adenocarcinoma, are also caused by exposure to asbestos.lone, either cigarette smoking or asbestos exposure can cause lung cancer. In combination, asbestos and smoking have a synergistic effect, meaning asbestos and smoking together cause lung cancer at a rate that neither could produce independently. For instance:
Asbestos and lung cancer. Asbestos has been linked to a number of lung diseases including asbestosis, pleural plaques/effusions, and mesothelioma. Asbestos is also an important cause of small cell and non-small cell lung cancer.There are a number of lines of evidence that asbestos is clearly linked to lung cancer including laboratory, epidemiological, and clinical research.nhaled asbestos and smoking work together synergistically to cause lung cancer. The risk of lung cancer in a smoker that has been exposed to asbestos is higher than the risk of the two factors combined. Smokers and those exposed to asbestos each have about a 5 to 10-fold increased risk of developing lung cancer.