Epithelioid mesothelioma is the most common of the three mesothelioma cancers that are diagnosed, due to inhalation of asbestos particles. Since the mid 1930s, doctors have known that working around this material will cause life-threatening results, but corporations continued using it in hundreds of applications for several more decades. Typically, a person will not become diagnosed with this form of until from fifteen to fifty years have passed.

In some cases, people who worked on movie set...