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| 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 |
| >Carbone was puzzled. Mesothelioma is a rare cancer. Few human cases were >reported before the 1950s, but its incidence had been increasing steadily, >reaching several thousand cases a year in the United States by 1988. This parallels, with a delay, the rise in use of tobacco, a strong carcinogen, and the exposure of persons to second-hand smoke. |
| 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 |
| - 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. |
| - Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text ->>> 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 >>>. |
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