| 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. |
| 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. |
| - 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 >>>. |
