A man from the UK who was diagnosed with the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma a couple of years ago has collected another round of winning from the betting shop after predicting that he could outlive the predictions made by his doctor. The man, aged fifty nine, was diagnosed with the cancer in 2006. He did [...]

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Following an evaluation at a European medical conference a particular type of surgery used to treat mesothelioma patients has been deemed effective. The procedure involves the removal of the outer lining of the lungs for sufferers of malignant mesothelioma, and is known as the pleurectomy/decortication.

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A former docker from the UK is said to have won a significant sum of compensation to provide financial support for his family after being told that he is dying from the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma, which the judge ruled was caused as a result of his work.

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Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has recently announced that it will be revealing date from more than fifty studies at the up and coming 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Orlando, Florida from May 29 to June 2 2009 The majority of the presentations will relate to the cancer research [...]

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A widow from the UK who lost her husband to the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma is now launching a bid for compensation over the death of her husband. Ann Sharpe was married to her husband, George, for forty five years. He died in November last year, just months after being diagnosed with the illness. George [...]

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It has been reported that medics may start to target the protein mesothelin in order to try and treat the asbestos related cancer, mesothelioma, as well as to make a more effective diagnosis of other forms of cancer, according to a recent report. The report was recently printed in the Molecular Cancer Therapeutics journal. According [...]

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A new cancer protocol is said to have shown signs of success, after a mesothelioma suffer who has not responded to other treatment tried on her so far found that the new protocol made a difference. The patient was a woman in her forties, and she was diagnosed with cancer in 2008 after being exposed [...]

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A number of major insurance companies are challenging a relatively new Scottish asbestos law that allows victims of pleural plaques caused by exposure to asbestos to claim compensation. These pleural plaques are scarring and thickening of the lung membranes that can cause respiratory problems and which campaigners have argued can lead to the asbestos related [...]

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The director of a company in the West Midlands, UK, has been fined thousands of dollars after it was found that he had sanctioned unlicensed asbestos removal from his company premises. The company director has been fined around twenty six thousand dollars in fines and costs as a result of the asbestos removal. Asbestos is [...]

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Researchers from the UK have reported on a combination treatment that could prove to be an effective treatment for sufferers of pleural mesothelioma, which is a form of cancer that is contracted through long term or higher level exposure to airborne asbestos dust and fibers. Following testing and research the researchers have reported that a [...]

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Over recent years countries such as the United States and the UK have seen the level of litigation relating to asbestos related diseases – in particular the asbestos related cancer, mesothelioma – increase, with more and more people being diagnosed with such diseases and going on to file lawsuits. According to a recent report Australia [...]

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A teenager from Britain is going to back the asbestos disease campaign of a popular national newspaper, after becoming the youngest person in Britain to contract the deadly asbestos related cancer, mesothelioma. It is not yet known how the girl contracted the disease, but it is reported that she has to battle with the cancer [...]

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A lung cancer victim from the UK has learned that her tumor has shrunk by nearly three quarters as a result of innovative treatment that she underwent in Germany. Debbie Brewer from Plymouth in the UK had been told that she had the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma, and that she only had months to live. [...]

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According to recent reports participants are now being enrolled by Columbia University in a Phase II clinical trial into a treatment program that could help to treat people that have pleural, peritoneal, or pericardial mesothelioma, which are types of cancer that are caused by exposure to asbestos. There is currently no cure for this type [...]

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An inspector from the Health and Safety Executive in the UK has expressed concern and outrage over a fine of eight thousand GBP, equivalent to nearly eleven thousand dollars, that was meted out to a heating firm that exposed three workers to the potentially deadly substance, asbestos. The inspector said that Lothian Heating Services put [...]

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A forty eight year old woman from the UK is suing her local council after contracting cancer that stemmed from exposure to the deadly substance asbestos. The woman, who did not want to be named, claims to have been exposed to asbestos whilst renovation work was being carried out at her school in Liverpool. She [...]

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A UK woman who contracted the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma has put her faith in Germany to try and help her to fight the disease. The woman was diagnosed with the cancer two years ago and was given just months to live. However, since trying out pioneering treatment in Germany her cancer has gone into [...]

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The UK could be in line to see the first asbestos centre of its kind based on the results of discussions between government officials, who are looking into the possibility of creating such a centre and are looking at how such a centre could be funded. The possibility of a National Centre of Asbestos Related [...]

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Victims of the asbestos related cancer, mesothelioma, and their families were recently given good news after a High Court judge in the UK ruled that the liability to compensate victims of their families by the insurance company arose at the time of exposure and not at the time when the tumour developed, which is what [...]

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A former tradesman from the UK has expressed concern that not enough people are aware of the dangers of asbestos exposure. The sixty five year old man, Tom King, was diagnosed with the asbestos related cancer, mesothelioma, two years ago. However, although he is still alive he is unable to perform many day to day [...]

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Politicians in the UK have been warned to think carefully before passing draft asbestos legislation relating to those that have contracted a benign asbestos related disease. The legislation relates to those that contract pleural plaques, which is a scarring of the lungs. Professor Neil Douglas, president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, has [...]

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A company from Painesville , Illinois , has been fined twenty five thousand dollars by the Environmental Protection Agency over asbestos related breaches, according to a recent report. The company is said to have violated air pollution laws during a project that was carried out last year in March 2007. The report claims that the [...]

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Asbestos and Mesothelioma are foreign terms for many people but unfortunately asbestos exposure is a prevalent as ever. It’s not hard to see, as a quick “Google News” search will bring up hundreds of results, many of which are recent, in which asbestos negligence is abundant. Government regulations help but are not assisting in public [...]

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An appeal lodged by WR Grace in relation to asbestos related criminal charges has been rejected by the Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected last week, and related to a case where criminal charges had been brought against the firm over the release of asbestos from a mine in Libby , Montana . WR Grace [...]

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A UK law firm has recovered compensation for the family of a woman that died from an asbestos related disease as the result of washing her husband’s clothes in the 1960s. The woman suffered secondary asbestos exposure from the asbestos dust and fibers on her husband’s work clothing. The compensation amounted to one hundred and [...]

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A woman from the UK has won compensation after claiming that she contracted a deadly asbestos related cancer from hugging her father when she was a child. The woman, Debbie Brewer, claims that she was exposed to asbestos when she hugged her father when she was younger. Her father worked at Devonport Dockyard in the [...]

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According to a new report baseline CT screening could prove beneficial and effective in the detection of lung cancer among people that have a history of being exposed to asbestos, which is a potentially deadly substance and a known carcinogenic. Researchers state that this method of screening could benefit those at high risk of developing [...]

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A developer in the UK has been accused of negligence for potentially exposing people to asbestos by leaving asbestos waste exposed at a site in Exeter that was being prepared for housing. Authorities heard about the asbestos risk from a local resident, who told them that the risk was at the Old Royal Naval Storage [...]

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The face of asbestos campaigning in Australia , Bernie Banton, has lost his fight against the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma, and died earlier this week. Mr Banton had been the face of asbestos campaigning for some time, but last August discovered that he had actually contracted the asbestos related cancer himself. Bernie, who was aged [...]

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An apology has been made by the Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott to asbestos campaigner Bernie Banton in Australia. Mr Banton led a group to present a petition to Mr Abbott recently, with the aim of the petition being to get subsidies on a drug used to treat asbestosis, which is a condition caused by [...]

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