Chrysotile Asbestos which is the most generally exhausted type in the United States is confirmed to cause different types of cancer including mesothelioma, laryngeal and even ovarian cancer according to the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer or IARC. Ovarian cancer in its relation to asbestos exposure proves to be a significant recent discovery.
Source: World Health Organization Affirms Mesothelioma Risk From All Asbestos Types
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Medical practitioners and researchers have long gathered essential details that now benefit doctors and patients alike. Medical treatments and services can now be adjusted according to the specific needs of the people. Patient history and information are taken and used to create medical treatments ideally suited for each of us. A recent development involves genetic sequencing companies. A person’s genetic composition may influence and reveal relevant data that could serve him well. While this procedure still has to undergo further experimentation nevertheless more discoveries are being made for the advancement of medicine.
Source: The Future of Medicine is Coming, And This Time It’s Personal
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Toshiko Fukuda, a widow from Japan will publish a book containing a collection of her text messages to her deceased husband who was a victim of mesothelioma. A worker from a steel pipe factory, Toshiko’s husband Motoo was found to have the disease in 2006 which was brought by his exposure to asbestos. To cope with the loss and sadness of her husband’s death, she composed text messages for him whenever she wanted to talk to him and sent them through a cellphone she left at his home shrine. She wishes that people will learn more regarding the threats that go along with asbestos exposure through her book.
Source: Woman publishes book full of text messages sent to her dead husband’s cell phone
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The Fourth Annual 5k Walk for Hope will be held on April 19, Sunday at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow NY. The event starts with a sign-in at 9 am and proceeds with the walk at 10 am. Janice Malkotsis organized the event a year after the death of his father, Joseph Lombardo in 2005 due to mesothelioma. She teamed up with Erica Iacono whose father suffered the same fate. The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation will benefit from this great cause and will help increase concern and knowledge about mesothelioma and the risks from asbestos exposure. Donations are welcome from those who will not be able to participate but would still want to aid MARF. Donations can be sent through the following address: 5k Walk for Hope c/o Janice Malkotsis 130 Taft Avenue Merrick, NY 11566.
Source: Walk for Hope this weekend
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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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Wisconsin Department of Health Services will conduct free asbestos removal information assemblies in order to promote harmless and secure asbestos removal among contractors, facility managers, and rental property owners. Changes made in the Administrative code on asbestos abatement will also be discussed there as well as the Certification and Training Course Requirements for Asbestos undertakings. These asbestos removal information assemblies are held all over the state in three colleges, a hotel, a cinema and a theater until April 16. The department also invites contractors, roofers, siders, window installers together with insulation and weatherization contractors to take part in these free sessions. Registration for attendees is no longer required.
There may be differences on asbestos removal methods which are based on the materials where it is contained nevertheless all removal methods intend to control the asbestos particles from spreading through the air where it can be breathed in and can therefore cause health problems. Asbestos removal usually uses moisture to bring down the fibers to the ground where they can be put away appropriately and safely.
Please check the Wisconsin Department of Health Services website for more information and further inquiries.
Source: Free Asbestos Abatement Information Sessions Offered in Wisconsin
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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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