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1/6/2009
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| 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. |
| - Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text ->Strickler presented his mesothelioma study, as well as new research he had >just completed, this time working with Fraumeni. >Their new study compared 20 years of cancer rates of people born between >1947 and 1963, and therefore likely to have been exposed to the >contaminated polio vaccine, with people born after 1963, whom they >believed werent exposed. |
| 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. |
| - Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -The deadly truth about asbestos A brief chronology of what the owners and managers of asbestos companies knew, and when they knew it. 1890s * Asbestos, which previously had few industrial uses, becomes a raw material for large manufacturing industries, exposing large numbers of workers to asbestos dust for the first time. Asbestos-caused disease often develops decades after a person was first exposed. As a result, it was not until the early 1900s that large numbers of workers developed symptoms. David Kotelchuck, "Asbestos: The Funeral Dress of Kings - and Others" in Dying for Work: Workers Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America, ed. by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN 1987, p193 1918 * A Prudential Insurance Company official notes that life insurance companies will not cover asbestos workers, because of the "health-injurious conditions of the industry.&q. |
| 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 |
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