PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA ASSOCIATED WITH NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA

Occupational exposure to asbestos has been associated with an increase d incidence of lung and gastric cancers, mesotheliomas, and myelolymph oid malignancies. A new observation of a patient with indirect exposur e to asbestos who developed mesothelioma and plasmacytoid-lymphocytic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is described. This report and the previously de scribed stimulation of B lymphocytes by asbestos suggests that the ass ociation of mesothelioma with lymphoid and plasma cell malignancies is not merely a coincidence.