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Asbestos victim numbers underestimated: study

...for projections, models that a number of the predicted number of MARK CLEMENTS: That's correct, so the current pattern is that there's been a rise in the number of cases over the past 10 to 15 years.

And the big question is how far will that rise continue because that last year predicts the number of cases out to 2050.

HAYDEN COOPER: Just how many more cases of MARK CLEMENTS: So far as actually putting a number on it, it's actually quite difficult.

So, what we've got is, in New South Wales we've got a baseline of about 2,500 cases and we're seeing at least a third more on top of that.It could be more but we try to give more of a conservative approach rather than sort of saying, "Oh we think that there's going to be x number".HAYDEN COOPER: So,...

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