| 1980s, under AHERA, schools nationwide removed tons of it. Construction companies were forced to perform abatement before renovations or demolition. There is no doubt that there are very sick people with asbestosis and mesothelioma who were exposed to asbestos. I meet several of them every |
| >Studies had linked mesothelioma to asbestos exposure - with tumors usually >appearing many decades later. Yet 20 percent of victims had no asbestos >exposure. Actually, smokers with heavy asbestos exposure are the most likely to get it. Carcinogens can havwe an additive or multiplicative effect. |
| The hospitals in Cornwall are in sad shape due to the cutbacks by a useless provincial government, and late last year he was sent home a couple of times after complaining of shortness of breath. Finally, in January of this year, he was brought to Ottawa, Ontario where they discovered his left lung was full of fluid. They operated and said they recognized mesothelioma instantly and removed the plurum around the left lung (I think, I am not all that familiar with the procedure). The doctor said he had the cancer for one to two years. |
| >Studying 18- to 26-year-olds who probably had been exposed to the >contaminated vaccine, Fisher found a 19.6 percent greater incidence of the >two major brain cancers linked to SV40 when compared with the incidence in >people the same age who were not exposed. She also found 16.6 percent more >bone cancers and 178 percent more mesotheliomas among those exposed to the >vaccine. Did she control for tobacco use and other carcinogen exposure? Are the % differences with an incidence rate high enough to be statistically useful, or so small that a difference of one or two cases makes a big % diference? |
| My mom, Gunisha Singh, was diagnosed about a month ago with Cancer--she has malignant mesothelioma, which is cancer of the inner chest cavity. This is a rare and mostly incurable form of cancer. Standard Treatment like chemotherapy and radiation therapy is not very effective against it, and by the time her particular cancer was diagnosed it was judged inoperable by Dr. M.S. Bains of the Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. As far as we know, the only treatment that can potentially cure her is gene-therapy. Gene-therapy is on the cutting edge of cancer treatment; basically what doctors do is take an ordinary virus like the cold virus, fill it with "suicide genes" that will cause the cancer cells to self-destruct, and then inject the virus into the chest cavity. So far this treatment has been very successful. My mom was waiting in New York to get into a gene-therapy treatment program at t. |
