MedLine Plus is the US government's main medical database, and the largest medical database in the world. It is run by the National Library of Medicine. This searchable database contains a tremendous amount of information on asbestos related diseases like mesothelioma. Begin here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/asbestos.html
The information can be easily searched using keywords starting on this main page of MedLine. In PubMed, part of MedLine, there are over 17 million journal articles from over 5000 medical journals. A search of PubMed in June of 2008 using the keyword mesothelioma turned up 10,394 journal articles on the subject. Of these, over 1300 were review articles that comprehensively cover this cancer. This is a fabulous resource for finding information that you just can't seem to find anywhere else. And that's why doctors use it. This is where your doctor goes to get the very latest information and to find answers to questions. Go ahead and use it yourself.