Asbestos cancer warrior Lou Williams tells Brisbane her life-changing story

Asbestos cancer warrior Lou Williams tells Brisbane her life-changing story

“My first exposure with asbestos was when I was about seven and Dad built another room onto our house with this asbestos fibro sheeting,” the prominent lobbyist told a Brisbane conference last week. Last week Ms Williams announced she had gathered 5000 signatures calling for a drug called Keytruda – which has helped bring her back from her death bed – to be added to the Phamaceutical Benefits Scheme for mesothelioma.