Several predisposing factors for malignant mesothelioma have been described in the literature, including mutations, such as BAP‐1, NF2, SETD2, TP53, DDX3X, ULK2, RYR2, CPAF45, SETDB1, and DDX51, and environmental exposures, such as asbestos, silicate fiber erionite, fluoredenite, balangeroite, carbon nanotubes, thorotrast dye, rock wool, slag wool, glass fiber, radiation, chronic inflammation, Papovavirus, and Simian virus.6, 7. This evidence concerns the gene BAP1 and malignant mesothelioma.