Are men more prone to getting mesothelioma than women are?
Men have been diagnosed with the disease three times as often as women. However, the rate of women being diagnosed with mesothelioma has increased over recent years. During World War II, women assumed many of the jobs normally worked by men who were deployed for the war, working in such places as shipyards, steel-producing facilities, and power plants where they were exposed to asbestos.
