Author: <span>Mesothelioma News</span>

Doctors to be given more training to spot the signs of asbestos-related conditions faster

DOCTORS are to be given further guidance on how to diagnose asbestos-related disease in the hope of improving care for sufferers. Clydeside Action on Asbestos , which helps people with mesothelioma, has developed a new initiative designed to help GPs s…

Doctors to be given more training to spot the signs of asbestos-related conditions faster

DOCTORS are to be given further guidance on how to diagnose asbestos-related disease in the hope of improving care for sufferers. Clydeside Action on Asbestos , which helps people with mesothelioma, has developed a new initiative designed to help GPs s…

SELLAS Life Sciences Group Announces Entry Into Cooperative Research…

The research plan of the CRADA is designed to develop a novel AML MRD assay for monitoring the expression of multiple genes that can document the kinetics of minimal residual disease in acute myeloid leukemia during treatment with SELLAS’ most advanced product candidate, galinpepimut-S, the Company’s WT1 cancer vaccine. Galinpepimut-S is a late clinical-stage cancer immunotherapy being developed to target hematologic cancers and solid tumors, including AML, malignant pleural mesothelioma , multiple myeloma, ovarian cancer, and multiple other cancers.

Cancer growing among Montreal firefighters

The Montreal Firefighters Association is calling on Quebec’s labour and safety board to do more for its members with cancer. Association vice president Chris Ross told Radio Canada that five years ago he had no open cancer claims on his desk, now he has 60. In April the Commission des normes, de l’quit, de la sant et de la scurit du travail added five types of cancer to its list of diseases related to the profession.

Mesothelioma Compensation Center Urges Families Told by a Doctor That Their Loved One…

The Mesothelioma Compensation Center says, “If you or your family member has recently been told by a medical doctor that they could or might have mesothelioma please call us immediately at 866-714-6466. Typically, the person was admitted to hospital for pneumonia type symptoms, and the doctor was made aware of the person’s exposure to asbestos decades ago.

Defending their toxics – Industry pushes to protect its preferred…

The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act for the 21st Century was signed into law with a general sigh of relief that finally, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would have the authority needed to evaluate and regulate the tens of thousands of commercial chemicals it oversees in the U.S. But as the EPA begins implementing the new law, the chemical industry is already busy pushing the agency to limit scrutiny of various widely used, highly toxic chemicals. Among the EPA’s first tasks under the Lautenberg Act is to enact rules outlining how it will prioritize chemicals for review and how it will assess chemical risks .

James Hardie unlikely to pay compensation for Aboriginal kids exposed …

An Aboriginal man has developed the fatal asbestos cancer mesothelioma after playing in the tailings from James Hardie’s white asbestos mine at Baryulgil, in northern NSW, when he was a child. Ffloyd Laurie, 55, who has never worked with asbestos, was exposed to the deadly dust as a schoolchild when tailings from the mine were widely used as landfill on the roads, around houses and even at the school in the tiny community.

Richard Thode has been named provisional Fire Chief of the Bridgeport Fire Department, June 8, 2016.

A Centers for Disease Control study shows that firefighters have more cancer diagnoses and cancer-related deaths than the general population – now some say it’s time for a National Firefighter Cancer registry. Calling it “an important public health step,” U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal , D-CT, and others in the region are asking for the creation of the registry.

Daughter of Cradley Heath usherette who died due to asbestos-related cancer appealing for information

THE heartbroken daughter of a former usherette from Cradley Heath is appealing to her mum’s ex-colleagues after she died from asbestos-related cancer. Lynne’s Halls’ mother Margaret Rose Edgington was 71 when she first became ill in 2012 and was diagnosed with mesothelioma the following year.

Appeal after former Redbourn joiner dies of asbestos related cancer

A grieving family of a joiner who died from an asbestos-related cancer is appealing to his former colleagues for help to trace the cause of his death. Allen Lavell, from Redbourn, died aged 78 in March 2015 after a painful battle with mesothelioma – an…