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Asbestos scare follows school fire

Fire crews responded to a call in Nottinghamshire, UK to find a former school up in blazes. Sherwood Hall’s two stories were sending up flames and ash into the surrounding neighborhood. Local Colin Thornton saw the fire from his workplace. “I’ve not seen anything like this before, this is massive. It is a really, really [...]

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Mesothelioma patients help create awareness for a changing patient base

14 July 2011

More and more mesothelioma survivors are getting involved with mesothelioma and asbestos awareness groups. Particularly, patients who are living past the expected average of eighteen months are using today’s many communication resources to spread the word about their disease, mesothelioma treatments, and experiences.  First hand patient insights from a changing patient base have become a [...]

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Mesothelioma caused by restaurant oven seals

06 July 2011

Mesothelioma has long been considered an industrial disease; patients diagnosed with mesothelioma often have a background in mining, shipbuilding, fuel refineries and other large-scale works. This is due to the cancer’s cause, asbestos, being used in such industries for its fire resistance, durability and insulating qualities. Industrial employees were often in direct contact with raw [...]

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$3.58 million goes to much needed mesothelioma research

29 June 2011

An anonymous donor has recently gifted 3.58 million dollars to University of Hawaii’s Cancer Center to be used in mesothelioma research. With most gifts of this size going to the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation, this gift to UH is a welcome surprise, bringing the university one step closer to becoming a leader in cancer research. [...]

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Mesothelioma patient self-prescribes vitamins, exercise, and triathlon

22 June 2011

Unlike many fathers who spent time with their families over special lunches or dinners this past Father’s Day, Larry Davis took part in a Father’s Day Weekend Triathlon. Even more unorthodox than the way he spent his Father’s Day, is his reasoning; Davis took his daughter’s advice and signed up for the triathlon as a [...]

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Additional mesothelioma benefits for Libby, Montana

15 June 2011

After years of asbestos exposure, Libby, Montana continues to live under a cloud of side effects and hazards associated with former W.R. Grace & Co. mine. For decades vermiculite mined from the Libby site tainted surrounding areas with asbestos fibers caught in the strands of vermiculite being excavated. Instances of mesothelioma and other asbestos related [...]

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Pasadena mourns the loss of a student to mesothelioma

08 June 2011

Austin Lacy, a senior at Pasadena high School in California, died last week in a Maryland hospital after battling mesothelioma cancer. Abnormally young to be diagnosed with mesothelioma, Austin did not know what the cause of his symptoms was until just a few weeks ago. When his mother, Karen Rogers, heard the diagnosis from Mayo [...]

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