Asbestos Compensation

Article by Agatha Simona Three California executives responsible for helping at-risk teenagers gain job skills have been charged with putting those teens at risk for asbestos related diseases including mesothelioma cancer. The executives ran a now-closed non-profit agency in Merced called Firm Build. According to the Merced County District Attorney’s Office, between 2005 and 2006, [...]

Continue Reading Mesothelioma and Asbestos Risk for California Teens

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Article by Agatha Simona Despite the fact that it has no naturally occurring sources of the cancer-causing mineral asbestos, the state of Illinois has a 30 percent higher rate of mesothelioma than the national average. Every year 1.3 out of every 100,000 Illinois residents contract the rare cancer, which is caused almost exclusively by exposure [...]

Continue Reading Mesothelioma & Legal Battles Continue in Illinois

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Article by Agatha Simona It will be at least another five years before a generic version of one of the most popular drugs used to treat mesothelioma becomes available. Eli Lilly owns the patent on the chemical makeup of pemetrexed disodium, known by the brand name Alimta, which was approved by the FDA in 2004 [...]

Continue Reading Still No Generic Form of Common Mesothelioma Drug

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Asbestos is a generic term for natural mineral fiber. Danger of serious damage to health by prolonged asbestos exposure. The association between asbestos exposure and bronchogenic carcinoma is now accepted as being causal in nature.    Tumor-suppressor genes normally protect cells from becoming cancerous, but the gradual silencing of these genes by abnormal methylation is [...]

Continue Reading Asbestos cause mesothelioma and cancer gene mutation

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Article by Agatha Simona There is disagreement among some of the world’s top mesothelioma experts about the value of the radical surgical treatment known as extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP). An asbestos-linked malignancy, pleural mesothelioma grows in a thin sheet across the membranous tissue surrounding the lungs. Benign mesothelioma is not a form of cancer. It is [...]

Continue Reading Mesothelioma Experts Take Aim at Radical Surgery

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Article by Agatha Simona Mesothelioma patients who have thoracoscopic surgery should not necessarily have radiation to keep their cancer from spreading at the surgical site. That’s the conclusion of researchers in Oxford, England who recently published an article on the practice of prophylactic irradiation therapy (PIT) for mesothelioma. Malignant pleural mesothelioma, a serious asbestos-linked lung [...]

Continue Reading VATS Preventive Radiation Not Recommended for Mesothelioma

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Article by Agatha Simona A system that uses intense light to destroy cancer cells might be able to enhance current mesothelioma treatments and improve survival. That’s the theory of scientists studying photodynamic light therapy (PDT) and its application for hard-to-treat mesothelioma. During PDT, cells that have been treated with a light sensitizing drug are exposed [...]

Continue Reading Photodynamic Therapy – A New Light For Mesothelioma Patients?

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Article by Agatha Simona A team of German researchers says examination of lung tissue for minute fibers of asbestos can be a valuable way to identify asbestos-related lung diseases like mesothelioma – especially when it has been many years since the exposure.Benign mesothelioma tumors,on the other hand, can increase in size. Larger tumors can negatively [...]

Continue Reading Lung Tissue Fibers Can Help Identify Mesothelioma

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A major killer of men and women in the world is lung cancer. The main contribute of lung disease are cigarette smoking, secondhand smoke, air pollutants and the other causative factors. Not only cigarette smokers but there are non smokers also do get lung cancer and smokers who don’t get it. Early signs of lung [...]

Continue Reading What are Early Symptoms of Lung Cancer?

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It is not a known fact, but more women die from lung cancer each year than any other form of cancer. Because of their smaller lungs, women are twice as likely to contract the disease than men. Here are some things you can do, but to cancer, reduce the risk of lung cancer. Eating pistachios. [...]

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