Mesothelioma Empowerment Update - december 3, 2010
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December 3, 2010
From One Man's Unjust Death, A National Justice Movement - U.S. House Passes Mesothelioma Awareness Day
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| Nancy Buszinski |
Tony Buszinski was driven to make things better for others. He helped build his church. He set up and operated its audio-visual equipment. He worked in a Pittsburgh steel mill as a maintenance welder. He would scrape the dusty asbestos insulation off the pipes, furnaces and boilers. Then he made the repairs necessary to keep them running in top condition.
In 1998, at the young age of 48, Tony was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by asbestos. Shortly after being diagnosed, Tony learned that the companies who made the asbestos products had known since the 1930's that asbestos was lethal, but they never told any workers or consumers.
This week, ten years after Nancy Buszinski lost her Tony and began her campaign to raise awareness about the disease and the need for research, the U.S. Congress finally passed House Resolution 771, permanently declaring September 26 as Mesothelioma Awareness Day throughout the country. More...
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A Holiday Message and Theological Response to "The Median Isn't the Message" from Meso Survivor Pastor Charles Van Kirk Meso-Byte date Tuesday November 30, 2010 A few days before Thanksgiving, I came back across the insightful and inspirational essay "The Median Isn't the Message" written by Harvard and NYU evolutionary biology professor Stephen Jay Gould shortly after he was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma in 1982. I thought some of my mesothelioma clients would enjoy reading this timeless and optimistic piece and forwarded it to them along with a Thanksgiving greeting. Once such client was Pastor Charles Van Kirk. More... |
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"Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" Meso-Byte date Tuesday, October 12, 2010 Since the early 1980's, companies responsible for inflicting asbestos-related illness on hundreds of thousands of Americans have sought to limit or escape legal liability through filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. More... |
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"Your firm really cares about my well-being." Meso-Byte date Wednesday, October 6, 2010 In April of 2009, Kathy first noticed she was having difficulty taking deep breaths. She met with her family physician who performed several tests including a chest x-ray. The x-ray revealed a pleural effusion. More.... |
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Diagnosis / staging:
- A novel tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging system of diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma using outcome analysis of a multi-institutional database More...
- Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsies for Gene Expression Ratio-based Diagnostic and Predictive Tests in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma. More...
- An Analysis of the Utility of Handheld PET Probes for the Intraoperative Localization of Malignant Tissue More...
Novel and Alternative Treatments
Estrogen Receptor β Exerts Tumor Repressive Functions in Human Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma via EGFR Inactivation and Affects Response to Gefitinib More...
Awareness:
- Asbestos Dangers Known Centuries Ago, but Battle Continues (12/2/10) More...
- 'In Libby, There Was No Maybe' About Dangers (12/1/10) More...
- Cancer Patient's Home a 'Living Laboratory' for Deadly Fibers (12/1/10). More...
- Government Refuses to Act on Cancer-Causing Insulation (11/29/10) More...