Does smoking cause mesothelioma cancer

Unlike lung cancer, there is no association between mesothelioma cancer and smoking, but smoking greatly increases risk of other asbestos-induced cancer.
Most people who develop mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they inhaled asbestos particles, or they have been exposed to asbestos dust and fiber in other ways. It has also been suggested that washing the clothes of a family member who worked with asbestos can put a person at risk for developing pleural mesothelioma cancer.
mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is almost always caused by exposure to asbestos.
In this disease, malignant cells develop in the mesothelium, a protective lining that covers most of the body’s internal organs.
The symptoms of mesothelioma include shortness of breath due to pleural effusion or chest wall pain, and general symptoms such as weight loss.
Despite treatment with chemotherapy, radiation therapy or sometimes surgery, the disease carries a poor prognosis.
Symptoms of mesothelioma cancer may not appear until 20 to 50 years after exposure to asbestos. Shortness of breath, cough, and pain in the chest due to an accumulation of fluid in the pleural space are often symptoms of pleural mesothelioma.
Resources from U.S. Department of Health and Human Service and from the U.S. National Cancer Institute
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