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'Better' test for asbestos cancer
(BBC 24/08/2009)
Scientists claim they have developed a more sensitive test for the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma. The cancer develops long after exposure to asbestos but patients usually have a limited life expectancy. The test developed by a team at Oxford University looks at levels of a protein closely linked to the cancer in fluid around the lungs. A UK lung expert welcomed the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine study.
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Abestosdiseased plumber gets £175000 compensation
(Telegraph 19/07/2009)
A former hospital plumber who developed an asbestosrelated disease has received £175000 in compensation. Alan Ward, 61, who was exposed to asbestos while working in hospitals in Wakefield between 1964 and 1972, has cancer of the lung lining. Mr Ward, who lives in Weston-super-Mare, said he has never been warned about the dangers to his health during his time as a plumber.
Cancer survivor's bet nets £10,000 prize
(The Scotsman 31/05/2009)
Jon Matthews, 59, refused to accept his doctor's prognosis that he would be dead within months and decided to bet against it. Matthews, from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, was diagnosed with mesothelioma - a cancer linked to asbestos - in April 2006. Keen to defy doctors' predictions that he would not see in 2007, he placed a £100 stake with odds of 50/1 with bookmaker William Hill that he would remain alive until 1 June, 2008.
Keep on running
(BBC 05/04/2009)
When Steve Lee completed last weekend's Reading half marathon in two hours and 45 minutes he was delighted. It was not his fastest time by any means - he used to complete the 13 mile course one hour faster. But 18 months ago, Steve, aged 63, from Reading, was diagnosed with the asbestos-related lung cancer mesothelioma and warned that he might just have a year to live.
Carpenters 'face asbestos death'
(BBC 04/03/2009)
One in 17 UK carpenters born in the 1940s will die of the asbestos-related lung cancer mesothelioma, researchers predict. They also calculated the deadly disease would strike one in 50 plumbers, electricians and decorators and one in 125 other construction workers. The UK mesothelioma death rate is now the highest in the world, with 1,749 deaths in men in 2005.
Hope for asbestos cancer woman
(BBC 17/12/2008)
Debbie Brewer, 49, from Plymouth, was diagnosed in 2006 with mesothelioma, a lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. After a tip from a doctor, she travelled to the Frankfurt clinic. It uses a treatment known as chemoembolisation, which introduces chemotherapy drugs directly to the tumour area. Now specialists have told Mrs Brewer the tumouris in remission and will not come back.
Landmark ruling for asbestos victims
(The Independent 22/11/2008)
The judge, Mr Justice Burton, ruled in 6 cases involving workers who developed the cancer (mesothelioma), that insurers for their employers at the time they were exposed to asbestos must pay up. The insurers had refused to pay following a Court of Appeal ruling 2 years ago in a different legal context. That liability was triggered when the disease actually developed, decades after exposure.
Asbestos pay-out ruling due
(BBC 21/11/2008)
The High Court is due to give a verdict in a case between victims' families, employers and insurance firms. The hearing has hinged on when an insurance firm was liable - at time of asbestos exposure or when a worker becomes ill (mesothelioma). If it is ruled the policy in place at the time of illness is the relevant one it may make it harder to get a pay-out.
(BBC 13/11/2008)
Mesothelioma, an asbestos-related form of lung cancer, could kill up to 100,000 people over the next 20 years, figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) suggest. One of the hardest hit areas is the industrial north-east of England, where the number of deaths has been steadily growing in recent years and now constitutes around a tenth of all mesothelioma deaths in England.
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