The International Agency for Research on Cancer has reinforced the truth about asbestos and its ill effects which include mesothelioma, laryngeal and even ovarian cancer in women. Information dissemination is a vital tool in increasing consciousness about mesothelioma which only shows its indication after 20 to 50 years from exposure to asbestos. The victims will already be suffering in its advanced stages even before experiencing treatment. The organization’s continued efforts to fight against this hazardous mineral and to prevent the spread of asbestos induced cancers found favor with the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization. Results of researches should be made accessible to the public which will then empower them against asbestos and the diseases related to it.
Source: Usage of asbestos cause lung cancer, mesothelioma, laryngeal cancer and ovarian cancer
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Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus talked about his daughter Miley Cyrus’ growing up years within a famed and celebrity environment for a newspaper. The interview turned out to be much more than that when Ron Cyrus, Billy Ray’s father was mentioned. Ron Cyrus died of mesothelioma which he acquired as a result of working in the mills with asbestos. He was a steelworker long before he attended to his duties in the Kentucky House of Representatives for 21 years.
Mesothelioma and asbestos awareness is being acknowledged in the Kentucky State Legislature together with Ron Cyrus and other remarkable people who were victims of the disease. HB519 was presented as a resolution stating September 26 every year as Mesothelioma Awareness Day in Kentucky and would be called as “The Ron Cyrus and Todd Hall Mesothelioma Awareness Act of 2009”. The same bill was brought up to the senate as SB58 where it was passed with a 36-0 vote in favor of the bill.
Source: Billy Ray, Miley Cyrus Draw attention to mesothelioma
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Montgomery, Alabama takes part in Asbestos Awareness Week which runs from April 1-7.The week long event advances public knowledge concerning asbestos and the diseases brought by exposure to it. Asbestos fibers are invisible in plain sight and can easily be breathed in. They bring about diseases such as mesothelioma or cancer of the lungs.
Asbestos is still present in plenty of materials in the United States. Insulation and other products used in construction before the 1950’s up to the late 1970’s were composed of asbestos, most of which if not all, still exists today.
Asbestos Awareness Week was endorsed all over the country by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, which was organized in 2004 by victims of asbestos with the support of their loved ones. This organization strives for an overall ban of asbestos in the United States.
Source: Asbestos Awareness Week in Montgomery, AL
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The Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Clinic aims to provide cancer patients with a one-stop shop for their testing needs. The clinic in Naperville, Illinois houses competent medical professionals such as oncologists, thoracic surgeons, social workers, coordinating nurses and the like who specializes in cancer. This setup then enables patients to receive their plan of treatment in just one day instead of the usual two weeks or even months. Patients normally have to wait this long before receiving treatment due to appointments in different locations for the numerous tests they need.
The clinic particularly caters to patients with thoracic cancers like mesothelioma. There is no recent cure for this type of cancer although a lot of patients choose to go through comprehensive medical care to fight it.
The topmost quality services is made possible by this clinic run by the Edward Cancer Center. Please visit www.edward.org for more information.
Source: Mesothelioma and Lung Cancer Treatments Expedited at New Clinic
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Cryoablation is a progressive treatment choice for patients with cancer that utilizes cold energy to target a tumor and destroy it. It entails the freezing and reheating of a cancer cell in order to treat and manage mesothelioma along with many other types of cancers.
Jan Egorton of County Durham, England is suffering from mesothelioma which she contracted through her exposure from asbestos because of her father who used to work around the toxic mineral. She found out about the treatment through research and flew to UCLA Medical Center with her husband and underwent Cryoablation which costs around $7,000 for one procedure.
She has affirmed that the treatment made her day to day living easier and she is pretty much positive that if all her tumors were destroyed it will then take five years for them to grow again therefore giving her more years to survive the cancer.
More research must be done to check the efficiency of the method while it is currently used to destroy cancer cells found in the lungs, kidney, bones and breasts.
Source: Mesothelioma Patient’s Hope Renewed with Freeze Therapy
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Lisa Jackson gave her word that the choices she will make as the latest head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency are going to be scientifically and not politically influenced. She served sixteen years at EPA which consequently gave way to doubts that she might not be able to deliver on her word because she was incidentally within the system that produced wrongful policies for the past two decades.
A Scientific Advisory Board formed by the EPA currently presented a research that declared asbestos as non threatening material despite an age of reliable medical proof that asbestos is a cancer-causing agent.
The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine back in 2004 asserted that asbestos still endangers the health of more than one million construction workers in the United States. Mesothelioma makes up three percent of cancer cases in the country while a study from the Environmental Working Group Action Fund also showed that there are around 10,000 deaths related to asbestos exposure each year. EPA has not done anything to date that will officially forbid it.
Ms. Jackson may be determined to handle business in EPA with an ardent commitment to the American people but then she will have to challenge a past filled with demand from political and industrial entities.
An official restriction of asbestos must be enacted by the EPA right away even if it will not bring back the lives of those who suffered from asbestos-related diseases but can hopefully spare the coming generation from its adverse effects.
Source: Mesothelioma Victims Hope New EPA will Change Asbestos Policies
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The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) is already on its fifth year of promoting mesothelioma consciousness through its International Asbestos Awareness Conference which will happen on March 28, 2009 at Manhattan Beach Marriott, California.
ADAO communicates knowledge about the ill effects of asbestos, its prohibition as well as providing inspiration and support for medical professionals to advance research and treatment choices for people affected with diseases brought by it.
The event will be attended by experienced physicians and scientists in the field of asbestos coming from the United States, India, Germany and South Africa. Mesothelioma prevention, asbestos facts and its repercussions not only in the US but also globally will be discussed there.
There will be five people who will be acknowledged for their continuous commitment and contribution for asbestos awareness. They are U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, Margaret Seminario, Stephen Levin, Pralhad Malvadkar and Raghunath Manwar.
The conference costs $250 for professionals and $125 for students, patients and caregivers. For reservations and more information visit www.adao.us
Source: Mesothelioma Awareness Through ADAO’s Fifth Annual Asbestos Conference
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South Korea aims to organize asbestos management directives to be implemented by early 2010. Little was known about asbestos and its ill effects until people who were working and living near the asbestos mines in South Chungcheong Province had health problems due to their contact with asbestos.
There were 21 completely running asbestos mines in their country before and even now that they were all closed down, a sense of urgency has taken its toll when reports of mesothelioma cases increased along with other asbestos related diseases within affected communities and neighboring areas.
South Korea’s critical choice to act upon the rising asbestos related concerns of its people has proven to be a worthy undertaking. Countries burdened with asbestos issues will hopefully take after them.
Source: Steps to Prevent Mesothelioma Will Begin Next Year in South Korea
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Researchers at Ohio State University are performing a study that examines the connection between asbestos fibers and human cells. This research aims to discover a means of stopping the progress of asbestos related diseases in hopes of preventing diseases such as mesothelioma.
The study uses a breakthrough process of atomic force microscopy so asbestos fibers can be tested at close hand together with its reaction to human cells that have specific receptor proteins. This process will hopefully shed a more clear conclusion about the inflammation caused by exposure to asbestos fibers which brings about mesothelioma and other forms of lung cancer. Crocidolite, which is considered the most hazardous type of asbestos is what researchers are primarily after in this study. They will go further into studying other kinds of asbestos.
Source: University Studies Molecular Relationship of Asbestos and Human Cells
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The miRview™meso test can tell the difference between mesothelioma caused by asbestos contamination from other types of lung cancers. It was developed and will be made available by Rosetta Genomics clinical lab situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They should be able to administer about 2,000 miRview™mesotests for the year 2009.
Through this test, doctors will be able to dismiss mesothelioma in people who have been exposed to asbestos. Since asbestos exposure has been proven to cause several types of diseases such as mesothelioma among many other respiratory related problems; these respiratory diseases related to asbestos exposure frequently have the condition of being temporarily inactive. It would take 20 to 60 years after being exposed to asbestos for it to manifest later on and only to be discovered in the individual when the disease is already in its advanced state.
This first test of its kind will definitely be a valuable instrument for all oncologists and pathologists to be able to give an appropriate diagnosis for their patients.
Source: New Test To Distinguish Mesothelioma From Other Forms of Lung Cancer
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