The Cancer Bulletin by the National Cancer Institute is “A trusted source for cancer research news”.
“”Asbestos” and “beach” don’t usually land in the same sentence. Then again, it was 11 years ago that the Sun-Times, in a 1997 investigative series, revealed the presence of asbestos fibers and asbestos-containing material at Illinois Beach State Park.”
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The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation was holding a Symposium on Mesothelioma from June 26-28 in Washington.
“Joseph Miletto died of peritoneal mesothelioma in 2005, just ten weeks after diagnosis. This year, on June 27, his granddaughter Lexi Miletto will speak at the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation’s International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma gala dinner, about her grandfather and about the importance of finding a cure for mesothelioma.”
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I think I’ll start this blog with some usefull links about mesothelioma from wikipedia:
- ATSDR – Case Studies in Environmental Medicine: Asbestos Toxicity U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (public domain)
- Mesothelioma: Questions and Answers from the U.S.National Cancer Institute
- Cancer.gov: Malignant Mesothelioma from the U.S. National Cancer Institute
- Mesothelioma from the American Cancer Society
- Malignant Mesothelioma review article from the American Cancer Society
- CancerBACKUP: Mesothelioma Information Centre
- Medlineplus: Mesothelioma from MEDLINE, part of the United States National Library of Medicine
- Worksafe, Western Australia, from Western Australia’s Department of Consumer and Employment Protection
- US Nat’l Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Australian Mesothelioma Register
