Mesothelioma Sufferer Struggles in Living Color

The bright green house on Piragua Street in La Costa is a symbol of hope. The house's owner, Rebekah Price, is fighting for her life against advanced mesothelioma, and the house's bright colors are reminiscent of a beach house. Some of her neighbors are understanding of her eclectic color choices. Others not so understanding have resorted to vandalism and worse. In the meantime, Rebekah fights to stay alive, flying every four months to National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. . .

Sunrise Propane Sends Asbestos into Local Air

Sunrise Propane facility explosion sends asbestos particles airborne threatening 12,000+ area residents. Residents complain that the facility should have had a control procedure to make certain that asbestos is not released into the atmosphere

UK Compensation for Mesothelioma

On October 1, Britains will have a compensation fund for people who have contracted asbestos cancer indirectly will soon be on hand to help sufferers. The fund provides payments of up to £14,000 to a specialized group of sufferers who worked with asbestos prior to its banning.

Mesothelioma Prevention on Courthouse Steps

All the earmarks of asbestos abatement procedures--plastic barriers, caution tape, and signs in multiple languages--are in place in the Palm Springs County Courthouse undergoing asbestos removal. They are being cautions to avoid potential future lawsuits, as hazardous asbestos-containing materials lodged in the lungs develop mesothelioma--several decades later.

Asbestos Compensation Delays

It is a real shame that the legal system grinds so slowly. It is even worse when compensation delays for people facing painful deaths from asbestos-linked diseases are deliberately delayed and put off, month after month, year after year, so that the victim gets sicker and dies before the family sees a sent. That compensation might make some of those deaths a little easier; if nothing else, it might relive the agonized minds of the mesothelioma victims, as they worry how their families will survive without their financial input, as well as how they will deal with the massive medical bills that will remain after they are gone.

Terminal Mesothelioma Victim remarries wife

Doctors thought he may have lung cancer but, when he came back to Derby, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma.

Mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the chest and lungs, is caused by exposure to asbestos.

Mr Gillingham, who is currently undergoing chemotherapy, feels breathless and is on morphine to relieve his painful symptoms. Mr Gillingham, who now lives with Mrs Gillingham, and their sons Stephen, 24, and Alan, 27, in Grosvenor Street, Allenton.

Asbestos under control?

Health issues traditionally associated with asbestos contact are lung cancer, asbestosis and mesothelioma, Hinde said. There is usually a latency period of about 15 to 20 years before any issue manifests itself.>

Compensation delays

The compensation delays for people facing painful deaths from asbestos-linked diseases have been strongly criticised by those close to John MacDougall, the Glenrothes MP who died while suing the government over his illness.

asbestos-related lung cancer

The Labour MP whose death this month triggered a critical byelection next to Gordon Brown's constituency had been suing the government for compensation over the disease that killed him. John MacDougall, the MP for Glenrothes, believed he contracted the asbestos-related lung cancer mesothelioma while working at the then Royal Navy dockyard at Rosyth in Fife in the 1960s and 1970s.