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News stories from around the world about mesothelioma and its effects on people who were exposed to asbestos.
- Coordinating Cancer Care According to a poll conducted by USA TODAY, Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health, half of cancer patients and their households have trouble coordinating medical care for their disease. The poll, reported in an article appearing in the USA TODAY on November 20, 2006, surveyed 930 adults who had survived cancer [...]
- Study:Asbestos fears are justified USGS scientists debunk industry claim, call particles dangerous. The Sacramento Bee reported on December 20, 2006 that the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed a federal environmental agency’s findings of a particularly dangerous kind of asbestos on playgrounds in El Dorado Hill. USGS experts in mineral identification reached the conclusion after closely examining the [...]
- Genetic test for lung cancer patients According to a report recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at Taiwan University have developed a five-gene test that may help show which early-stage lung cancer patients most need chemotherapy. Chemotherapy can be greatly beneficial in slowing or halting the growth of lung cancer in some patients, but have little or [...]
- Clients Prevail Over Former Baron & Budd Associate in Federal Court In a surprising verdict, a jury in a Dallas federal court found that a former associate with Baron & Budd “deliberately lied” to three clients, awarding them $129,000 in damages.
- Alfacell Achieves Full Patient Enrollment Milestone for the ONCONASE Phase IIIb Registration Study in Unresectable Malignant Mesothelioma Press Release from Alfacell Corporation
- Asbestos: The Iron Grip of Latency Asbestos said to be the number one carcinogen in the world of work
- British Mesothelioma patients seek new chemotherapy drugs – UK Report from the BBC
- Press appeal to make mesothelioma drug available a success – UK Evening Chronicle in Newcastle gets Alimta made available on the NHS to mesothelioma sufferers
- Dad refused drug after radical cancer surgery – UK Jeff Hurrell believes he is a victim of “postcode prescribing” and has vowed to fight for new chemotherapy drug Alimta, which is available in other parts of the UK but not Teesside.
- Painful legacy of asbestos at work – Scotland What can be done to help those with mesothelioma? The sort of treatment a patient gets depends very much on where he or she lives as there is no agreed central management strategy.
- Asbestos victims win compensation – USA Asbestos victims have finally won a £95million compensation battle against Turner & Newall, the company which owned Ilminster-based bearings firm The Glacier Metal Company.
- A brief overview of Mesothelioma cancer Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that is found usually among men who are advanced in years…
