Multiple Choice Questions

Question 6. An 84-year-old former building construction worker presented with progressive dyspnoea and a chest X-ray showed marked unilateral pleural thickening and a small pleural effusion. Which fact concerning the risk of mesothelioma is true?

	a. Asbestos exposure is not a risk for peritoneal mesothelioma
	b. Mesothelioma is more common in women than men
	c. Since the banning of asbestos in the 1980s the incidence of mesothelioma is plateauing
	d. The risk of mesothelioma decreases with age
	e. The wives of asbestos workers have an increased risk of mesothelioma