Is there an know way to prevent pulmonary fibrosis?

I need to know this for an science project that is due tommorrow. I know that there is no know way to treat this diesase but, maybe if we knew how to prevent it really well than we would not need a treatment, because nobody would get it.

Idiopathy means a pathological state of unknown or spontaneous origin.
Inhaling asbestos fibers can cause scar tissue (fibrosis) to form inside the lung. Scarred lung tissue does not expand and contract normally, and cannot perform gas exchange. The severity of the disease depends upon the duration of exposure to asbestos and the amount inhaled.
Asbestos fibers were commonly used in construction before 1975. Asbestos exposure occurs in asbestos mining and milling industries, construction, fireproofing, and other industries. In families of asbestos workers, exposure can also occur from particles brought home on the worker's clothing.
Asbestos-related disease includes pleural plaques (calcification), malignant mesothelioma, and pleural effusion. Mesotheliomas may develop 20 - 40 years after exposure. Workers today are less likely to develop asbestos-related disease because of government regulations.
Cigarette smoking increases the risk of developing the disease. The incidence is 4 out of 10,000 people.
Similarly those who are handling coal or silica (tiles) will be affected by pulmonary fibrosis.
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, the most common form of IIP, causes progressive pulmonary fibrosis predominantly in male smokers. Symptoms and signs develop over months to years and include exertional dyspnea, cough, and fine (Velcro) crackles. Diagnosis is based on history, physical examination, chest x-ray, and pulmonary function tests and is confirmed with HRCT, lung biopsy, or both if necessary. No specific treatment has proven effective, but corticosteroids, cyclophosphamide, azathioprine, or a combination are often given. Most patients deteriorate even with treatment; median survival is < 3 yr from diagnosis.
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Pulmonary fibrosis is treated through it's symptoms. If you get a symptom, you get a treatment of something. It isn't really a good way of doing things, but it's the best we can do at this time.

Pulmonary fibrosis happens for so many reasons that you would have to live in a sterile plastic bubble to avoid them all. Mold, chicken poo, dust, oxygen, free radicals, maybe scarring from asthma? Who knows? I know a guy with pulmonary fibrosis. He developed it because we shoveled-out the chicken coops on his uncle's farm without breathing protection when we was a kid. He is otherwise very healthy. He just has a cough sometimes.