«In Italy asbestos is everywhere. For mesothelioma cases we are at the tip of the iceberg.” The map

«In Italy theasbestos it is still present everywhere and even in an unsuspected way, without anyone intervening”. Antonio Giordano reports it, oncologist Italian in force in the USA, where the journalist’s testimony was strong Franco Di Mare who revealed the disease presumably contracted during the years he spent as a war correspondent in the Balkans.

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His story «has also shaken America. We are at his side”, the scientist, president of the Sbarro Health Research Organization (Shro) and professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, tells Adnkronos Salute. On one side “It is urgent to definitively eliminate asbestos present in the environment“, on the other hand “we need to develop an adequate monitoring system for those who have been exposed”, urges Giordano, convinced that instead “economic interests slow down scientific research”.