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| 1964 * Dr. Irving Selikoff publishes a study of asbestos workers in the Journal of the American Medical Association, proving that people who work with asbestos-containing materials have an abnormal incidence of asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma. Barry I. Castleman, Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects, 4th edition, Aspen Law and Business, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1996, p.126 |
| >Carbone decided to use PCR to test 48 human mesotheliomas stored at the >NIH. He was stunned: 28 of them contained SV40. And the other 20? |
| Malignant mesothelioma is a cancer of the lining of the lung, usually induced by long years of exposure to asbestoes. Treatment is very unsatisfactory -- the disease is resistant to radiotherapy and poorly responsive to chemotherapy. In America, we try treatment with adriamycin, taxanes, or platinal but the odds are against success. In a managed care enviroment, I could understand a reluctance to offer anything more than drainage of the fluid, oxygen, and morphine. I dont think your fathers care is wrong since most treatments are likely to be futile. |
| > 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 |
| >>>>> Normally I wouldnt send out blitzmail like this but I have >>some >>>>> saddening news and a very big favor to ask of all of you. >>>>> 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 potenti. |
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