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• A Brief Overview of What Mesothelioma Cancer is

  
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• Breakthrough Treatment for Mesothelioma Discovered by Australian Oncologist

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 129
  Victoria, Australia—Mesothelioma sufferers in Australia and around the globe may soon see an increased life expectancy, thanks to a breakthrough in the treatment of this aggressive asbestos cancer.Dr. Malcom Feigen, a radiation oncologist at the Austin Health Centre in Victoria, has been deeply involved with ...
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• $20 Million Dollar Mesothelioma Verdict Upheld

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 129
  San Francisco, CA—An appellate court in California has upheld a verdict of $20 million which was previously awarded to a mesothelioma patient and her husband.Joan Mahoney, who was a singer by trade but who also helped her husband with a family-based home-remodeling business, contracted mesothelioma after years of ...
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• Lung Mesothelioma And Its Prognosis

  
  World News — Authority: 463
  Lung mesothelioma or the pleural mesothelioma is one of the three very perilous cancers affecting the mesothelium, a protective covering found around vital organs like lungs, abdomen and heart. The three types are the pleural, which affects the lung cavities, the pericardial that inhabit in the heart cavities and ...
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• Former Carpenter With Mesothelioma Files Suit Against Manufacturers

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 129
  Beaumont, TX—A former carpenter who claims he developed mesothelioma while on the job has filed a lawsuit against 38 defendant corporations, including General Electric and Georgia Pacific.Cleveland J. Savoy accuses the companies of failing to test the products which contained asbestos before manufacturing and ...
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• Mesothelioma Study Finds Success in Trimodality Therapy

  
  Asbestos and Mesothelioma News — Authority: 124
  Recently published in the medical journal Lung Cancer , a clinical trial on trimodality therapy for mesothelioma found the combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy (radiation) to improve traditional survival rates among malignant pleural mesothelioma patients. The clinical trial included 35 participants ...
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• Woman Develops Mesothelioma From Secondhand Asbestos Exposure

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 129
  Seven Hills, Queensland, AUSRALIA—In another of a growing number of cases of secondhand asbestos exposure, a woman who contracted mesothelioma from washing her husband’s work clothes is suing the State Government and building products manufacturer James Hardie.The woman, whose first name is Joan and who wishes ...
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• Pleural Mesothelioma – Mesothelioma Cancer About The Lungs

  
  Naked News — Authority: 175
  Mesothelioma of the pleura mesothelium is what is recognized as pleural mesothelioma. The pleura is the membrane responsible for holding the walls of our chest and our lungs. Over 60 percent of all mesothelioma instances are pleural while the two other varieties make up the left over percentage.
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• Mesothelioma Victim’s Son Files Suit Against DuPont

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 129
  Old Hickory, TN—In one of an increasing number of lawsuits against the company, a Tennessee man has filed a wrongful death suit against DuPont, claiming that exposure to asbestos fibers led to the mesothelioma which killed his mother.Ruby Neely, who died earlier this year from the asbestos cancer, was exposed ...
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• Widow of Mesothelioma Victim Speaks Out

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 129
  Trafford, England—Elaine Haskins, 59, is making public her husband’s struggle with mesothelioma in order to promote widespread awareness of this silent killer.Hugh Haskins, who had worked for years as a builder, was exposed to asbestos on the job and eventually contracted mesothelioma as a result. Haskins died in ...
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• CT, Ultrasound Equivalent in Pediatric Pneumonia (CME/CE)

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  In pediatric patients with complicated pneumonia, chest ultrasound works as well as CT scanning to detect complications such as loculated pleural effusion or lung abscess, researchers said.
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• Family of Mesothelioma Victim Will Get A Retrial

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 129
  Chattanooga, TN—There will be a new trial in the case of a DuPont retiree who died from the asbestos cancer mesothelioma, and whose family has brought a suit against his former employer and other companies, ruled a three-judge appeals panel.Hugh Todd Nye worked at the Chattanooga DuPont facility from ...
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• Lawsuit Brought Against Two Foreign Corporations By Mesothelioma Victim

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 129
  Tyler, PA—A federal lawsuit filed November 2 in the Tyler Division of the Easter District of Texas alleges that two foreign companies operating in Texas exposed a worker to asbestos, which led directly to his diagnosis of mesothelioma.Robert Plummer, along with his wife Nadine, have filed the suit against T&N ...
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• Mesothelioma Victims Back Asbestos Awareness Campaign

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 129
  Kent, UK—Two victims of the rare, severe cancer known as mesothelioma are backing a British Health and Safety Executive campaign that is publicizing the dangers of asbestos exposure to tradesmen.Former electrician Jack Rekert, who was diagnosed with this unusual cancer of the lungs’ outer lining two years ago, has ...
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• Ken Rosenzweig, MD | Pleural Mesothelioma

  
  Peoples-Blog: Mesothelioma & Asbestos Cancer — Authority: 143
  For more videos and presentation slides about mesothelioma treatment, visit www.curemeso.org. Dr. Rosenzweig’s presentation at the International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma 2009, presented by the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation.
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• Fluid in the Lungs – Causes and Treatment

  
  Current Health Articles 2009 — Authority: 123
  Fluid in the lungs is a broad term to describe two possible conditions that may give characteristic symptoms, like a bubbling sound in the lungs (rales) when breathing. The fluid accumulation may be inside the lung (pulmonary edema) or outside the lung (pleural effusion), in the space between the lung and chest wall. ...
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• Former Architect Dies From Asbestos Cancer Mesothelioma

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 129
  London—Just two months after his diagnosis of mesothelioma, a former architect who worked with asbestos almost 40 years ago has died.Brian Pettit was 66 at the time of his death, for which which coroner Dr. Andrew Reid recorded a verdict of death by industrial disease. Pettit had developed a malignant tumor on his ...
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• New Mesothelioma Test Effective at Predicting Which Patients Will Benefit from Surgery

  
  Asbestos and Mesothelioma News — Authority: 124
  Researchers at the Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts have developed and tested a gene ratio test that helps predict which pleural mesothelioma patients will benefit from surgical procedures and trimodality therapy (multiple modes of therapy). The test, which analyzes relative expression levels of ...
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• Mesothelioma Risk Leads OSHA to Fine Buffalo-Area Contracting Company

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 129
  Cheektowaga, NY—After learning that they engaged in dangerous practices concerning the evaluation of asbestos contamination and the removal of asbestos-containing materials, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined an upstate New York company $50,000.Superior General Contracting, of Buffalo ...
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• Peritoneal Mesothelioma Verdict Overturned on Appeal

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 129
  Miami—Last week a Florida appeals court overturned a verdict of over $24 million in an asbestos liability case. The case will now go back to trial, on order of a panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal.Dr. Stephen Guilder, who contracted peritoneal mesothelioma after working with asbestos-containing brake pads on ...
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