A new study of shipyard workers in Italy indicates that years and even decades later, those who have worked around asbestos can suffer health consequences, including mesothelioma and lung cancer. The study, published last month in La Medicina Del Lavoro , an Italian medical journal, looked at former workers from one specific shipyard who were diagnosed with asbestos-related illnesses, and analyzed postmortem lung samples to determine at what level asbestos remained in the worker's bodies.
