tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54150202024-03-08T05:29:38.085-08:00MesotheliomaInteresting sites on the Internetmesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-32380890298232145452011-03-01T18:31:00.000-08:002011-03-01T18:35:05.965-08:00Asbestos and Lung CancerA naturally occurring mineral that contains fibers, asbestos has been identified as the most common industrial substance that induces lung cancer. When fibers of asbestos disintegrate, they release microscopic particles in the air. Since they are easily inhalable, they can settle down in the lungs, leading to cell damage and increased cancer risks. Smokers face an mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-54357704651527343072010-03-12T16:14:00.000-08:002010-03-12T16:17:52.520-08:00Dallas Church Undergoes Asbestos RemovalA Dallas-area church that dates back to 1897 is undergoing asbestos removal and demolition. Workers at Ponce Contractors, the firm in charge of the demolition efforts at the Oak Cliff Christian Church in suburban Dallas, reported that the asbestos removal and remediation process should last until the first week of February. After the dangerous material mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-26598539145407488942010-03-12T16:08:00.000-08:002010-03-12T16:12:39.724-08:00Man Sentenced for Illegally Selling Asbestos Training Course Certificate On October 19, 2009, John V. Bruce of Meriden, Connecticut pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Toxic Substance Control Act, or TSCA, in relation to asbestos. According to U.S. Attorney Nora R. Dannehy, of the District of Connecticut, Bruce, 39 admitted he had sold a licensed asbestos remediation certificate, for $mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-20450526514637098342009-12-09T15:23:00.001-08:002009-12-09T15:23:38.936-08:00Cancer In Older People The fact is that because of many important advances in medicine, people are more aware of how to prevent many illnesses like heart disease and others. In addition, people in the world are healthier, living longer, and they are more concerned about living healthy lives. Women that are born now, are expected to live for 85 years and men are expected to live for 77 years.Themesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-77198778924461647122009-12-09T15:20:00.000-08:002009-12-09T15:21:47.777-08:00Cancer in the ElderlyCancer is common with older people. However, older people usually receive screening for cancer less often, and they may receive no treatment or milder treatment. Research shoes that cancer therapy and treatment is useful for older individuals. It is essential that older people that have cancer and their family be given information about treatment, including the benefits, mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-71578562813868088542009-12-03T14:59:00.000-08:002009-12-03T15:03:40.918-08:00Potsdam, NY Civic Center Gets Asbestos Remediation after Cancer Deaths In Potsdam, New York, two workers at the city’s civic center, or city hall, died this summer within three weeks of one another, raising fears of asbestos contamination in the building on Park Street in downtown Potsdam. One, Sharon M. LaDuke, 57, died May 29 after being diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare and often fatal mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-73717904402390907312009-12-03T14:56:00.000-08:002009-12-03T14:58:27.882-08:00Asbestos Fraud Case Goes to TrialCSX Transportation, a leader in the rail freight industry, presented their suit against a West Virginia-based doctor, a Pittsburgh-based law firm and one of the firm’s employees for filing false claims of asbestos exposure against the company. The suit, originally filed in 2005, claims that Robert Gilkison and his employers, the law firm of Peirce, Raimond and mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-18277649995768578142009-11-16T17:23:00.000-08:002009-11-16T17:25:23.941-08:00Idaho Firm Tagged for Improper Asbestos Removal In October of 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, conducted an asbestos-removal compliance inspection on a property where Precision Demolition and Abatement, LLC. of Boise, Idaho had completed work. The property, located at 4806 Emerald Street and currently known as the Orient Market, was an abandoned building slated for mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-23147618879298527702009-11-16T16:51:00.000-08:002009-11-16T16:55:54.370-08:00Asbestos Exposure Asbestos is a needle like mineral fiber that was widely used in the manufacturing of home and industrial products such as insulation, floor tiles, paint, heating ducts and pipes, and automotive parts until the 1980’s. Asbestos is easily aerosolized into microscopic particles that can be inhaled and lodge within the lungs. Asbestos has been shown to be highly carcinogenic, mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-5153045951429062822009-11-02T14:20:00.000-08:002009-11-02T14:24:49.357-08:00Katrina Legacy Upsets Residents Hurricane Katrina, which swept the southern coast of the U.S. from Florida to Texas in 2005, was the sixth strongest hurricane ever recorded and left in its wake a swath of damage from the Southern Louisiana parish of Plaquemines to as far north as Clarksville, Tennessee. The cost, in dollars, was $110 billion, making it the most expensive hurricane to hit the mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-79829859916163258842009-10-19T13:47:00.000-07:002009-10-19T13:51:15.096-07:00Fresno, California Police Department Employees Exposed to Asbestos On September 21, a Fresno, California-area newspaper reported the exposure of about 90 city employees to asbestos as a result of construction crews installing fire suppression equipment in two computer rooms next to the police department’s communications, or dispatch, center. Asbestos exposure can lead to a number of mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-75846153780786333082009-09-14T15:14:00.000-07:002009-09-14T15:17:40.130-07:00In CSX Asbestos Case, Gilkison Found Not Culpable A federal grand jury in West Virginia has ruled that Robert Gilkison is not guilty of conspiracy to defraud CSX. The case has undergone a number of twists and turns, beginning as far back as 2000, when CSX employee Ricky May, who had previously tested negative for asbestosis, learned that Pittsburgh-based law firm Peirce, Raimond, and Coulter, mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-77959924050397686212009-09-11T15:22:00.000-07:002009-09-11T15:25:13.677-07:00Asbestos Fraud Case Goes to TrialCSX Transportation, a leader in the rail freight industry, presented their suit against a West Virginia-based doctor, a Pittsburgh-based law firm and one of the firm’s employees for filing false claims of asbestos exposure against the company. The suit, originally filed in 2005, claims that Robert Gilkison and his employers, the law firm of Peirce, Raimond and mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-91246498256853804402009-09-04T16:12:00.001-07:002009-09-04T16:14:34.367-07:00Potsdam, NY Civic Center Gets Asbestos Remediation after Cancer Deaths In Potsdam, New York, two workers at the city’s civic center, or city hall, died this summer within three weeks of one another, raising fears of asbestos contamination in the building on Park Street in downtown Potsdam. One, Sharon M. LaDuke, 57, died May 29 after being diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare and often fatal mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-33617878758842157992009-09-04T15:53:00.000-07:002009-09-04T15:59:00.627-07:00Palmyra, PA Asbestos Cleanup to Add $1M to Previous CostIn December of 2008, voters in Palmyra, Pennsylvania were asked to approve a $9.88- million bond referendum to fund a variety of improvements at the district's three schools, the most urgent being asbestos removal at Charles Street School, which serves students from kindergarten through sixth grade.The referendum was scheduled for Dec. 9 mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-1154976968518636082006-08-07T11:55:00.000-07:002006-08-07T12:07:56.920-07:00Veterans and MesotheliomaThousands of men and women who served our county from World War II to Vietnam are sick from asbestos exposure during their military service. Asbestos was often used for a number of military purposes especially construction and ship-building. Due to long latency periods, people who served as far back as the Second World War are only now being diagnosed.While a diagnosis ofmesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-1148655564803283942006-05-26T07:56:00.000-07:002006-05-26T07:59:24.813-07:00From http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/angiogenesis/CA00079How can angiogenesis be stopped?Researchers are investigating a number of ways to stop or alter the angiogenesis process, including:1) Blocking initial signals from the tumor.2) Making initial signals from the tumor less effective.3) Stopping the enzyme pathway.4) Normalizing mangled blood vessels.5) Preventing the switch from turning on.*mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-1127921971809538112005-09-28T08:37:00.000-07:002005-09-28T08:39:31.816-07:00Mesothelioma news articles are here. It's such an intractable form of cancer that any ray of hope is positive.mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-1126021154601546572005-09-06T08:38:00.000-07:002005-09-06T08:39:14.606-07:00Immunotherapy sometimes called biological therapy, uses the body's own immune system to protect itself against disease. Researchers have found that the immune system may be able to recognize the difference between healthy cells and cancer cells, and eliminate those that become cancerous. Immunotherapy is intended to repair, stimulate, or enhance the immune system's natural anticancer function. mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-1124817015462242352005-08-23T10:08:00.000-07:002005-08-23T10:10:15.473-07:00Chemotherapy for mesothelioma information can be found here.Mesothelioma cancer cells differ from normal cells partly because they keep dividing and forming more cells without control. Anticancer drugs destroy cancer cells by stopping them from growing or multiplying. The presence of chemotherapy drugs in the body also hurts or kills healthy cells, especially those that divide quickly, and it is mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-1124208786069170162005-08-16T08:59:00.000-07:002005-08-16T09:13:06.076-07:00AdSense: the worst thing that ever happened to the web.Google introduced a program called AdSense a couple years ago, and it has contributed to a cheapening of the web experience and the creation of a lot of bad sites. The type of person who thinks nothing of clicking on ads to cost advertisers money, just because they want to support the website.Look at some of the webmaster discussion forums mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-1123015375404310982005-08-02T13:37:00.000-07:002005-08-02T13:43:21.070-07:00Prognostic factors in mesothelioma.Prognostic factors can help clinicians and patients when deciding a treatment plan. Patients in the best prognostic groups can be considered for more intensive or experimental therapy. Alternatively, patients in the best prognostic groups might prefer a period of observation prior to commencement of therapy. For patients with mesothelioma prognostic factors are mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-1121285615259326172005-07-13T13:11:00.000-07:002005-07-13T13:13:35.266-07:00The incidence of malignant mesothelioma, a neoplastic process affecting the pleura, and to a lesser extent the peritoneum, is increasing. Mesothelioma is almost always caused by inhalation of asbestos fibers years before the development of the malignancy. Since asbestos exposure generally occurs on the job site, obtaining a thorough occupational history is critical. The elapsed time between firstmesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-1120766867236507312005-07-07T13:06:00.000-07:002005-07-07T13:07:47.240-07:00Current surgical management of malignant pleural mesotheliomaMalignant pleural mesothelioma is a rare and very aggressive malignancy with an increasing incidence. Single-modality therapy has failed to improve median survival. Current surgical therapies include palliative and cytoreductive procedures. The rarity of the disease, the lack of randomized surgical studies, and the lack of a universallymesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415020.post-1120658810180370722005-07-06T07:03:00.000-07:002005-07-06T07:06:50.186-07:00Patients with a cancer of the lining of the lung, known as malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), lived longer than previously reported(1), when treated with Eli Lilly and Company's Alimta(®) (pemetrexed) in combination with cisplatin, according to updated data presented at the 11th annual Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC).Mature data presented at WCLC represent an update from trial results from mesotheliomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118972305661636809noreply@blogger.com