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Workers’ disease meeting

A DEDICATED group of campaigners is fighting for the rights of victims of mesothelioma, better known as asbestos disease.

There are around 1,800 cases of the illness reported in Britain each year. This number is growing and will not peak for several years, because the disease develops at least 10 years after exposure to asbestos and sometimes as long as 40 or even 50 years after exposure.

The Cheshire Asbestos Victims Support group, based in Runcorn, has been supporting victims of asbestos disease and their families since 1992.

The not-for-profit support organisation is staffed by volunteers, most of whom are victims of asbestos disease themselves.

The group owns a respite care caravan in Rhyl, North Wales, where sufferers and their families are able to have respite holidays at the group’s five star caravan bought in 1999 with charitable donations.

Source : iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk

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