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1/7/2009
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| 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 |
| 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. |
| >>>>> 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. |
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