Early Chemotherapy Improves Outcomes for Mesothelioma
Posted on Jan 17, 2006 | CancerConsultants.com
Early Chemotherapy Improves Outcomes for Mesothelioma
According to a recent article published in the Annals of Oncology, immediate treatment with chemotherapy improves survival rates at one year and provides improved quality of life compared to administering chemotherapy once symptoms occur in patients with malignant Mesothelioma …
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Interferon Alpha May Help Treat Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: Presented at STS
Posted on Feb 03, 2006 | DGDispatch
Interferon Alpha May Help Treat Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: Presented at STS
Interferon alpha maintenance therapy may provide substantial improvement in survival over existing therapies in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), according to findings presented here at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) 42 nd Annual Meeting.
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Lessons in Japan 's Asbestosis Time Bomb
Posted on Feb 15, 2006 | ipsnews.net
Lessons in Japan 's Asbestosis Time Bomb
As a child, Yoshiharu Sawada, now 77 years old, would visit his mother at the local asbestos factory where she worked and wait till she finished her shift so they could walk home together…
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Promising research in early detection of mesothelioma
Posted on Jan 19, 2006 | www.999today.com
Promising research in early detection of mesothelioma
New research may result in better diagnosis for patients diagnosed in the early stages of mesothelioma.
Mesothelioma, once a rare cancer, has become more prevalent in the past 50 years. The incidence of this aggressive disease, which has no cure, is expected to rise through 2015…
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Mesothelioma Treatment 101
Posted on Jan 26, 2006 | Juiceenewsdaily.com
Mesothelioma Treatment 101
Treatment of MM using conventional therapies has not proved successful and patients have a median survival time of 6 - 12 months after presentation. The clinical behaviour of the malignancy is affected by several factors including the continuous mesothelial surface of the pleural cavity which favours local metastasis via exfoliated cells…
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Fire investigator found deadlier dangers after quitting police
Posted on Feb 15, 2006 | The Ottawa Citizen
Fire investigator found deadlier dangers after quitting police
After 24 years of sifting through the toxic remains of fires, Les McPhee died of cancer. Ironically, he had left police work due to the risks, Shelley Page writes…
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EPA reminds school officials of asbestos hazard responsibilities
Posted on Feb 03, 2006 | Presszoom.com
EPA reminds school officials of asbestos hazard responsibilities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Denver Office has sent Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) compliance assistance letters to local education agencies (LEAs) in Wyoming , Montana , South Dakota and North Dakota as a reminder of school responsibilities concerning asbestos…
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'Love Cannot Just Stop'
Posted on Feb 11, 2006 | The Oakland Press
'Love Cannot Just Stop'
Mirella Panozzo vividly recalls the last few years of her husband's life. She remembers sadly how Carl's 6-foot, 175-pound frame dwindled to just skin and bones and how cancer took his right lung and left him in excruciating pain just before his death Aug. 25, 2003. He died at age 62, three years after he was diagnosed with mesothelioma…
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Asbestos Case Witness Sentenced to Prison
Posted on Feb 14, 2006 | timesunion.com
Asbestos Case Witness Sentenced to Prison
A former Schenectady man will spend 10 months in federal prison for his role in one of the nation's largest asbestos scandals. Kevin Pilgrim, 38, a Canadian immigrant who graduated from Union …
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Asbestos Anguish
Posted on Feb 02, 2006 | Dailyireland.televisual.co.uk
Asbestos Anguish
Asbestos-related deaths in the North have reached a new five-year high, Daily Ireland can reveal. During 2004, the last year for which statistics are available, 65 people died of asbestosis and mesothelioma – the highest figure recorded since the late 1990s…
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EPA reminds school officials of asbestos hazard responsibilities
Posted on Feb 14, 2006 | EPA.gov
EPA reminds school officials of asbestos hazard responsibilities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Denver Office has sent Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) compliance assistance letters to local education agencies (LEAs) in Wyoming , Montana , South Dakota and North Dakota as a reminder of school responsibilities concerning asbestos…
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Asbestos Killed 20 Residents Near Plants
Posted on Feb 11, 2006 | www.yomiuri.co.jp
Asbestos Killed 20 Residents Near Plants
Twenty of 143 people who died of an asbestos-related disease between 2002 and 2004 in Hyogo Prefecture had never worked with asbestos, but had lived in Amagasaki , where asbestos-related factories were located, according to a ministry survey released Thursday…
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Retrial Ordered for Asbestos Miner
Posted on Feb 02, 2006 | www.theage.com.au
Retrial Ordered for Asbestos Miner
The High Court has ordered a retrial for a former asbestos miner, who is attempting to sue CSR and Midalco for allegedly giving him asbestosis and depression through negligence…
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Scholarship to Honor Teacher's Memory
Posted on Feb 09, 2006 | www2.townonline.com
Scholarship to Honor Teacher's Memory
The family of teacher Kathi Glavin Higgins has founded a scholarship fund in her memory, in the hopes of helping special education students or those pursuing degrees in education, including special education…
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Companies Move for Judgment, Dismissal
Posted on Jan 31, 2006 | The Daily Times
Companies Move for Judgment, Dismissal
Doug Satterfield wants to keep fighting for his daughter, the late Amanda Satterfield, who died as a result of an asbestos-related disease...
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Grandfather Killed by Work With Asbestos
Posted on Feb 08, 2006 | Reuters
Grandfather Killed by Work With Asbestos
A GRANDFATHER who worked most of his life for British Rail died as a result of exposure to asbestos an inquest heard…
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Why is Asbestos Bad for you?
Posted on Feb 10, 2006 | DailyPress
Why is Asbestos Bad for you?
Asbestos is a mineral fiber that was used commonly in a variety of building construction materials for insulation and as a fire-retardant…
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Family Man Died Due to Work With Asbestos
Posted on Feb 09, 2006 | archant.co.uk
Family Man Died Due to Work With Asbestos
A CORONER has ruled that an Exmouth grandfather died of an industrial disease after he was exposed to asbestos…
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Asbestos Causes Cancer, Kills, and it is Still Among Us
Posted on Feb 04, 2006 | CancerWire
Asbestos Causes Cancer, Kills, and it is Still Among Us
The February edition of CancerWire focuses on the continued presence of a carcinogen that will stun many Americans – asbestos the well known carcinogenic mineral is still being used in the U.S…
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USG Agrees to Pay $4 Billion to Settle Asbestos Claims
Posted on Jan 31, 2006 | Associated Press
USG Agrees to Pay $4 Billion to Settle Asbestos Claims
USG Corp. said Monday it expects to emerge from 4 1/2 years in bankruptcy sometime this summer after the world's largest manufacturer of wallboard agreed to settle its asbestos-related lawsuits…
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Youngsville asbestos victim watches Senate fight over compensation bill
Posted on Feb 07, 2006 | TheAdvertiser.com
Youngsville asbestos victim watches Senate fight over compensation bill
As U.S. senators argued from her television set Monday, Betty Lerille talked about the end of her life.It's an odd thing, talking about imminence of her death on days like today, when she feels well, on what she calls “a good day…
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Firm Fined for Asbestos Risk
Posted on Feb 02, 2006 | Eveningnews24.co.uk
Firm Fined for Asbestos Risk
A factory where 200 people worked was yesterday branded a "Jekyll and Hyde operation" for endangering the lives of employees by ignoring pleas to remove potentially-lethal asbestos…
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Maryville man sues Alcoa, Inc.; alleges company caused daughter's death
Posted on Jan 30, 2006 | www.wbir.com
Maryville man sues Alcoa, Inc.; alleges company caused daughter's death
Interferon alpha maintenance therapy may provide substantial improvement in survival over existing therapies in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), according to findings presented here at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) 42 nd Annual Meeting.
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Former railroad worker files asbestos lawsuit
Posted on Jan 31, 2006 | www.wvrecord.com
Former railroad worker files asbestos lawsuit
A former railroad worker and his wife have filed a lawsuit claiming he was exposed to asbestos during his nearly 40 years on the job…
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WORKED TO DEATH
To make a decent living, workers have often ignored personal safety
Posted on Jan 29, 2006 | Chicagotribune.com
WORKED TO DEATH
To make a decent living, workers have often ignored personal safety
“When my father's blue Chevy station wagon entered the cul-de-sac of my childhood at the end of the day, our kitchen table was already set for supper. Stepping onto the driveway, a powdery veil of pale dust clinging to his work clothes, my father would remind me that a daughter's hug would have to wait… "
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Laundry caused 84-year-old's asbestos illness, lawyers claim in Madison County trial
Posted on Feb 16, 2006 | Edwardsville Bureau
Laundry caused 84-year-old's asbestos illness, lawyers claim in Madison County trial
An 84-year-old woman from Burbank , Ill. is asking a Madison County jury to award her damages because she was exposed to asbestos while washing her husband's work clothes between 1966 and 1970…
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Egg carton manufacturer fined £50,000 over asbestos
Posted on Feb 02, 2006 | www.hse.gov.uk
Egg carton manufacturer fined £50,000 over asbestos
Following its successful prosecution of Omni-Pac (UK) Ltd, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reminds everyone of the dangers of asbestos…
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Best Buy founder gives Mayo $48.9 million
Posted on Dec 03, 2005 | Pioneer Press
Best Buy founder gives Mayo $48.9 million
Four years ago, Best Buy founder Dick Schulze's first wife, Sandra, died of mesothelioma, a cancer that attacks the lining of the lungs…
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Exposure to Asbestos from Rocks Can Cause Malignant Mesothelioma
Posted on Feb 03, 2006 | DGDispatch
Exposure to Asbestos from Rocks Can Cause Malignant Mesothelioma
Californians who live close to naturally occurring asbestos sources and who are exposed to low levels of the mineral are at increased risk for developing malignant mesothelioma, a serious cancer of the membrane covering the lung, according to a new study…
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Egyptian Asbestos Workers Dying of Cancer
Posted on Jan 13, 2006 | Compwatch
Egyptian Asbestos Workers Dying of Cancer
Wrapped in a brown sweater, to protect himself against the Egyptian winter, a man turns the coals of a camp-fire to keep the water boiling for tea at a makeshift shanty-town in front of the blue iron fence that encircles a shuttered factory in an industrial suburb of north-east Cairo …
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