| - 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 >>>. |
| > 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 |
| >>> 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 a >>> neurosurgeon at the University of California in San Francisco who felt that >>> she had cervical spondylosis with herniated disc. |
| >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. |
| >>>>> 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. |
