America’s Deadliest Disease, Mesothelioma
Mesothelioma is a site created to provide you with up to date information on the deadly disease Mesothelioma. We strive to provide the most complete overview of the disease and all aspects of it. This includes general information on the disease, breaking news on the search for a cure and perspective legislation designed to limit you as well as all other news on the subject, links to other sites and online resources that can provide important and in-depth Mesothelioma and cancer related information, and a legal guide to help you with the complex legal issues involved with Mesothelioma.
Mesothelioma is one of the deadliest diseases known to man; the average life span of an inflicted person from the time of diagnosis until death is less than 6 months. It’s a disease that strikes approximately 3,000 United States citizens each and every year; hard working people who have labored for a lifetime to provide for their families, doing the work that keeps this country running and a great place to live. They worked in factories, at shipyards, in mines, for the US military, as engineers, as pipefitters, as steel workers, as auto mechanics, and in so many other professions. They came home to their loved ones exhausted and covered in dirt and dust; tired, but content that they had a job and were providing for their family. Content that they were putting food on the table and a house over their loved one’s heads. Content that they were working to make a better life for their families in this generation and the next…
But what they didn’t know was that while they were working so hard, they were not only slowly killing themselves, but those that they were working so hard to help; their family, their loved ones.
Mesothelioma is a disease that is almost 100% preventable; the only known cause is via exposure to the deadly mineral Asbestos. It comes from inhaling the particles of dust as the asbestos degrades; eating away at the lining of your lungs and developing into a deadly cancer. Dust that was inhaled in clouds of white powder, dust that was carried home on the clothes of the men who built this country, dust that was cleaned from the clothes by the wives and children who supported their sole provider at home, dust that was packed around the heating systems in houses and offices and schools, dust that carried a deadly price; and dust made a fortune in blood money for the companies that produced it.
Unfortunately, the effects of asbestos on the human body were known to be deadly for years by the companies who employed the “greatest generation” and made hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars off of their backs. But instead of taking simple steps to alleviate the problem and save the lives of thousands of their workers, they choose to do nothing and continue to make a healthy profit with a deadly product. Many even went so far as to hide the truth from their workers and their families. And because the normal latency period for Mesothelioma (The time from exposure until the patient falls ill) is 20 to 30 years, many got away with this for years. We are only now beginning to see the full effects of the disease, and feel the terrible outcry of the people against those who put profits before human lives to a degree that is simply unfathomable.
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I doubt that Mesothelioma is the world’s deadliest disease.
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that Mesolink was down.
Very nice site. It is not the deadliest dz, but it is one of the top lawsuit related. Unfortunately, the knowledge about asbestos & other things was not known years ago. It is similiar to smoking, with the exception that many people who die of this dz got it due to the hazardous conditions in which they worked…
Thanks for the information, I never knew the hazaards of this disease.
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In the context of this article, asbestos fibers are not the only substances that cause mesothelioma lung cancer, carbon nanotubes are also known to do so. A huge study published in the research journal Nature Nanotechnology suggests that some forms of Carbon nanotubes could be as harmful as asbestos fibers if inhaled in to the body and to the Esophagus and lungs. The study confirms that specific types of carbon nanotubes have the potential to cause malignant mesothelioma including Pleural mesothelioma that can take 30 to 40 years after initial asbestos exposure to surface to life. The research study suggests that nanotubes that are very thin, long and multi-walled look like asbestos fibers, and behave like asbestos fibers. This image on the left shows Carbon nanotubes in the top half, and tissues of asbstos fibers in the second half. You can see the similarities between the two fibers, and scientists think that carbon nanotubes can also cause mesothelioma lung cancer & other malignant diseases.
It is not the deadliest disease in the world but it forms part of the Cancer group, which could be the deadliest disease in the world… Cancer anyone? Here are some statistics about mesothelioma Source: http://www.fightmesotheliomacancer.com
Approximately 2,000 to 3,000 new cases are reported each year in the U.S. More than 10,000 are reported worldwide.
Three times more men than women develop the disease.
Approximately 80 percent of diagnosed cases can be directly linked to a job where asbestos was present.
Mesothelioma typically has a latency period of 20-50 years.
The average age of a mesothelioma patient has historically been about 65 years old.
The 5-year relative survival rate for mesothelioma patients is about 10 percent. The 1-year survival rate stands at about 40 percent.