title: Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and Pleural Mesothelioma in a Person Exposed to Asbestos.
abstract: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and pleural mesothelioma may co-exist in the same patient. A large cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the inguinal lymph nodes was diagnosed in a 73-year-old woman. The patient was treated by chemotherapy. She did not receive radiotherapy. The patient had been exposed to asbestos having worked in a cotton mill and in a distillery. Four years after the diagnosis of lymphoma, she presented with a left pleural effusion. Large biopsies of the pleura showed a malignant mesothelioma, biphasic type, and pleural plaques. Epidemiological studies about the asbestos-lymphoma relationship gave conflicting results. The lymphoma-mesothelioma association is not exceptional, and suggests that asbestos plays a role in the etiology of both malignancies.
authors.affiliation: Italian League Against Cancer, Center for the Study of Environmental Cancer, MONFALCONE, ITALY.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bianchi
authors.forename: Tommaso
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bianchi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001194:Asbestos / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D008654:Mesothelioma / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D000086002:Mesothelioma, Malignant; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D001194:Asbestos