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1/7/2009
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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. |
| 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. |
| > 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 |
| 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 discs without evidence of frank neurological impairment. At this time, her primary intervention was manipulation of pain to control her symptoms. &nbs. |
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