Asbestos and Lung Cancer (Part Two)
As many as twenty tradespeople one week could be drying from damage caused by the exposure to asbestos, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) claims. Even though asbestos has been…
Read more »Asbestos and Health Impacts to Human
The disposal of asbestos waste is under the control of the Environment Protection Authority. For further information, you can access the details available in the EPA publication on Asbestos Transport…
Read more »Alternative and Complementary Medicine for Pleural Mesothelioma
Those diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma often ponder CAM, which stands for complementary and alternative medicine, when they weight their options for treatment. The traditional treatments for mesothelioma-chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation…
Read more »A Story of Malignant Mesothelioma Patient
Paul Kris is not the only survivor of malignant mesothelioma. There are of course others such as Ruth Phillips, Rhio O’Connor, and Gene Adoline. Additionally, there are a great number…
Read more »Myth around Malignant Mesothelioma, Will it Actually Disappear? (Part Two)
Unluckily, the incidence of malignant mesothelioma has not shown any omen of vanishing anywhere in the globe. While the exposure to asbestos in the workplaces has widely been eliminated in…
Read more »Peritoneal Mesothelioma Life Expectancy
Peritoneal mesothelioma is known as one of the four main types of malignant asbestos cancer or mesothelioma. The name is derived from the area where the cancer cells develop, along…
Read more »What Plural Tumors are
Pleural tumors are present in the pleural space, which is the cavity between the lungs and chest wall which contains lubricating pleural liquid. Pleural tumor is almost always cancerous (metastatic)…
Read more »Managing Life Expectancy of Stage 4 Lung Cancer
While the statistics on the life expectancy of stage 4 lung cancer are quite low, there are so many people that are long-term survivors of stage 4 lung cancer. HOPE…
Read more »Myth around Malignant Mesothelioma: Will it Actually Disappear? (Part One)
To corroborate the myth that malignant mesothelioma will disappear soon, four main assumptions are made. First, it is widely assumed that almost all malignant mesothelioma are triggered by the exposure…
Read more »Health Effects of Asbestos: Mesothelioma and Asbestosis
Asbestos is hazardous since it has the potential to break down into fibrous and microscopically fibers. The fibers are very small in that they can remain airborne for several days…
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