1.   Asbestos exposure alone results in a fivefold increase in cancer risk.

2.   Asbestos exposure also can lead to other diseases, including a fatal cancer of the chest or abdominal cavities known as mesothelioma.

3.   Benefits include medical costs, prescriptions, in-home and hospice care for afflicted workers, but only for conditions specifically linked to asbestos exposure.

4.   A person exposed to asbestos runs a relatively high risk of developing lung cancer, but asbestos exposure is uncommon, Mortensen said.

5.   But he said he did get wind of high asbestos exposure, so he disqualified himself from asbestos cases.

6.   But he said he also worried about asbestos exposure, despite reassurances from city officials that people had nothing to fear.

7.   Corporate liability for asbestos exposure has become one of the most contentious and expensive areas of American law.

8.   Early asbestosis diagnosis allows patients to avoid further asbestos exposure, or other lung irritants, and lets them get started on regular cancer screening.

9.   Federal research programs to find ways to control asbestos exposure among auto workers slammed to a halt.

10.   His wife, Shirley Pierce Spears of Greensboro, N.C., said it was an extremely rare form of lung cancer, typically associated with asbestos exposure.