I’ve read of rare cases where someone less than *30 was diagnosed with mesothelioma. From what I understand,
A) Normally it taks decades for it to develop and
B) Almost all can be linked back to exposure to asbestos.
Anyway, for these rare cases,
A) Are they still typically linked to asbestos exposure, and it was just the bad luck of the gene pool (or whatever) that it showed up at such an abnormally young age, or. . .
B) Maybe there are other risk factors that might contribute to it or. . .
C) Maybe they’re just cases of a random mutation in an errant cell?o
*Well, obviously if they’re in their 20s, that does technically give it decades to develop.
Read up on Libby, Montana, and asbestos exposure. It’s probable you (not you personally) played on a playground as a child loaded with asbestos fibers, only to develop mesothelioma at a young age.
Asbestos is at least six different types of minerals. That is, minerals with asbestos quality. I seem to recall that the mineral zeolite was also suspected to be linked to mesothelioma. There are also at least two types of mesothelioma: pleural (lungs) and peritoneal (gut lining). I also seem to recall that there was a cluster among Danish woodworkers.
The highest correlation was from exposure to crocidilite (sp?) a type of mineral with asbestos properties. It had especially long blue fibers. It was used in Kent’s trademarked Micronite filter cigarettes.