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1/7/2009
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| - 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 >>>. |
| > 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 |
| 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. |
| >>>>> Gunisha Singh is a 46 year old Indian female with no significant >>past >>>>> medical history who presents for evaluation of a newly diagnosed >>right-sided >>>>> pleural malignant mesothelioma. >>>>> Mrs. Singh was in her usual excellent state of health until >>>>> approximately January 1996 when she noticed the onset of right >>neck, arm, >>>>> and shoulder discomfort gradually increasing in intensity. This was >>often >>>>> accompanied by a burning sensation in the distal arm and fingers on >>the >>>>> right side. At that time she was living in Hong Kong and was >>evaluated by >>a >>>>> neurosurgeon who felt that her symptoms were consistent with two >>herniated >>>>> cervical discs. The patient then came to the U.S. for evaluation by &. |
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