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Q So --
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2 A Not from occupational.
3 Q If I understand you correctly, ifwe have a
4 person who dies from mesothelioma and can never be
5 interviewed and has no family to interview, and we
6 don't know anything about where the person worked, and
7 the pathologist looks at the lung tissue and finds a
8 whole bunch of asbestos in the lungs, more than would
9 be expected from the background, in that situation you
10 would not relate that mesothelioma to asbestos,
11 correct?
12 A Most likely we would saythat there would be
13 a potential of occupational exposure. I am not so
14 sure about your hypothetical.
15 It is getting way off the tangent.
16 Q All I am trying to point out, Doctor, that
17 person would be listed as a nonasbestos mesothelioma
18 on the chart, right?
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19 A Which person?
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20 Q A person who has -- who could not give an
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21 occupational history, either because they were dead or