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Mesothelioma-the DEADLY Disease

By Jessica Smagacz

pp class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"a href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/toxic-substances/exposure-to-asbestoswhat-results.aspx?googleid=249644"/aa href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/toxic-substances/exposure-to-asbestoswhat-results.aspx?googleid=249644"Mesothelioma /ais a rare cancer usually associated with frequent exposure to asbestos. This disease takes about 20 to 60 years for a person to notice they even have it./p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"a href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/toxic-substances/lung-cancer-awareness-monthinformation-about-mesothelioma.aspx?googleid=251006"/aThere are around 14 in a million people who are diagnosed with a href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/toxic-substances/lung-cancer-awareness-monthinformation-about-mesothelioma.aspx?googleid=251006"mesothelioma /aa year. The most common association is with occupational and environmental exposure to asbestos./p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"See our past posts to learn more information about mesothelioma: a href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/toxic-substances/lung-cancer-awareness-monthinformation-about-mesothelioma.aspx?googleid=251006"Lung Cancer Awareness Monthmdash;Information about Mesothelioma/a amp; a href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/toxic-substances/exposure-to-asbestoswhat-results.aspx?googleid=249644"Exposure to Asbestosmdash;What Results?/a/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"a href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/toxic-substances/exposure-to-asbestoswhat-results.aspx?googleid=249644"/aa href="http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/36376684.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU"StarTribune /awrote a recent article discussing a mesothelioma study from the University of Minnesota. The researchers from the University will be giving an update on a five year study into mesothelioma on the Iron range. It will be Thursday evening at the Mountain Iron community center to talk about the 4.9 million dollar study. /p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"Parts of the study include health screenings of northeastern Minnesota miners along with their families which will begin this spring. The goal for this study is to randomly screen about 2,000 people at the Virginia Regional Medical Center. The researchers want to determine if there is a relationship between exposure to taconite dust and a href="http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/36376684.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU"mesothelioma /a(which has been associated with exposure to asbestos)./p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"a href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/toxic-substances/exposure-to-asbestoswhat-results.aspx?googleid=249644"Mesothelioma /ais a deadly disease. If you or someone close to you has been diagnosed with Mesothelioma, you may want to a href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/firms/Georgia/Atlanta/Childers-Buck--Schlueter/email.aspx"contact the attorneys /aat a href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/firms/Georgia/Atlanta/Childers-Buck--Schlueter/"Childers, Buck, and Schlueter/a to see how they can help protect your legal rights./p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt" /p p /p/pa href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/toxic-substances/mesotheliomathe-deadly-disease.aspx?googleid=253614"Originally posted/a at a href="http://www.InjuryBoard.com"InjuryBoard/a by a href="http://www.injuryboard.com/member-profiles/Jessica-Smagacz"Jessica Smagacz/a

Full post as published by Atlanta Personal Injury Lawyer on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).