Asbestos Lung Cancer In The News

COLCHESTER -- It could cost more than $200 million to clean up hazardous waste from an asbestos mine in northern Vermont, state and federal officials says. ... - The Associated Press

This month has many faces, in the form of many titles — AIDS Awareness Month, Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, National Pomegranate Month, etc. — but Lung Cancer Awareness Month may be the one that hits home for most.

(ARA) - Everyone knows the dangers of asbestos. What was once commonplace in factories and the construction industry has caused a slew of health problems to those who have been exposed.

TERRY WARD spent most of his life as a builder working on sites with little or no protection against the invisible danger of asbestos.

Local resident, Dennis Zabaldo was diagnosed in October 2002 with Stage IV lung cancer. At the time his doctor only gave him six months to live. Now six years later he is working out five times a week and lives a healthy, active life.

Expert advice Dr. Gavin Henry discusses treating — and preventing — lung cancer

Exxon is accused of negligence in an ex-yard worker's cancer death. Stanley Morton was long retired from the Newport News shipyard when he was diagnosed with asbestos-related cancer in April 2006.

Nine years after its use was banned, statistics show that nearly 4,000 people in the UK die each year from the effects of asbestos exposure whilst at work. (PRWeb Nov 27, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1674524.htm

WELCOME GUEST! The roof of the Suva Market is being rapidly changed because it contains toxic asbestos material. Re-elected Suva Lord mayor Ratu Peni Volavola confirmed to Fijilive that the roof contained asbestos and the Suva City Coucil was moving at a rapid pace to get the roof changed.

Expert advice Every year about 165,000 people in the United States die from lung cancer, and about 210,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. That means more people die from lung cancer annually than from breast, prostate and colon cancer combined, says Dr. Gavin Henry, chief of thoracic surgery at St. Agnes Hospital.