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Asbestos cancer victims ’ignored’

People suffering from a cancer caused by asbestos exposure are being neglected, campaigners say. Mesothelioma kills 1,800 people a year - more than cervical cancer - but there is no cure and treatment only relieves the symptoms. A British Lung Foundation conference is due to demand that ministers invest more money into research and improve access to compensation. The Department of Health said it was reviewing current treatment practices. People with mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer which is almost always caused by exposure to asbestos, often die within a year or so of diagnosis. The disease can take years

No one should have to watch someone suffer so

A nurse who watched her father die of asbestos-related cancer today pleaded for more money and research to find a cure for the deadly disease. Lifelong Devonport Dockyard worker Roger Lowe died in December at the age of 68, just six months after being diagnosed with mesothelioma - a rare form of cancer that is contracted after exposure to asbestos. It can lie dormant inside the body for decades. Still coming to terms with the loss, daughter Jackie Lowe is now trying to. Source : accessmylibrary.com

Campaign for local cancer support

The Roger Lowe Asbestos Mesothelioma Campaign was set up in memory of a Devonport Dockyard fitter who died of the asbestos-related disease. Mesothelioma is an aggressive and incurable form of cancer whose only known cause is exposure to asbestos. The family claims it causes about 250 deaths a year in Plymouth and they feel it is important to have local support. The campaign also aims to educate, raise awareness and encourage more research into the efficiency of drug therapies and better diagnosis. Daughter Jackie Lowe said: "Despite Plymouth's appalling record for asbestos related deaths there is no local organisation specifically

Dying man wins payout

A man who said he developed an asbestos-related cancer from his father has won a "significant sum" of compensation from the North chemical giant where his dad worked. Nicholas Trowbridge's father Michael was a plant manager at ICI in Teesside from 1957 to 1975 and Nicholas believes that is why he has been diagnosed with mesothelioma. He launched a legal bid in February against the firm for compensation and, on Friday, was awarded what he says is "a significant sum" in an out-of-court settlement. It could open the floodgates for scores of similar claims. Nicholas said: "I am happy it has finally been laid

James Hardie accused of evading asbestos liability

James Hardie, the former Australian building products giant now based in the Netherlands, today reported a bumper half-yearly profit of $94 million. Shareholders might be pleased, but it's a profit critics say is immoral and should be illegal. Thousands of Australians who worked for James Hardie and other asbestos companies, or used asbestos fibro in their home or workplace, are now dead or dying from exposure to the deadly asbestos, and tens of thousands more are predicted to die. Hardie stopped using asbestos 17 years ago. Two years ago, it cast aside its former asbestos subsidiaries, placing them in the control of a