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An estimated 3,000 people each year are found to suffer mesothelioma, an often late-exhibiting form of cancer that primarily attacks the lungs. The main cause for the disease is clear - asbestos.

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Although its use has sharply declined over the years, asbestos continues to claim lives today for a number of reasons. For one, some residential and commercial buildings still contain the known toxin. Also, the cancer caused by asbestos exposure has a latency period that can last up to 50 years - so someone who worked in a building containing the material in 1954, for example, might only now be showing symptoms of mesothelioma.

If you or a loved one has suffered lung cancer or larynx cancer as a result of asbestos exposure, you may want to contact an asbestos attorney or contact a mesothelioma attorney for a free evaluation of your case.

The Institute of Medicine also has announced that asbestos appears to also cause cancer of the larynx. The finding was contained in a June 2006 IOM report analyzing laryngeal cancer and its potential relation to inhaled asbestos fibers. The report estimtaed that there would be 9,510 new cases of cancer of the larynx in 2006, with 3,740 resulting in death. (Read the report.)

Make no mistake, asbestos-related cancer is deadly. In lung cancer cases, for instance, the average survival time from the date of diagnosis is one year. Symptoms generally begin with constant chest pain, with victims later experiencing difficulty breathing, weight loss and fever.

Asbestos is a flaky mineral substance widely used in the 1950s and 1960s in building materials, particularly insulation, wallboard, textile products and fireproofing materials. Microscopic-size particles of asbestos have a tendency to break up and become airborne. The particles are easily inhaled.

At greatest risk are people, generally older men, who worked in factories, steel mills, shipyards and other plants - especially those with old buildings - where they may have been exposed to asbestos on a daily basis. Also potentially at risk are people who worked with products made with asbestos, such as brake linings, floor tiles or fireproof mitts or aprons.

Kline & Specter P.C., a Philadelphia-based law firm with some 30 attorneys, several of whom are also highly skilled doctors, has had success litigating asbestos lawsuits. Contact an asbestos lawyer today.

• California appeals court upholds a more than $11 million award to a couple for an incurable lung disease the husband suffered after being exposed to asbestos in Navy shipyards in the 1940s and 1950s. The jury assigned 75 percent of the responsibility for his illness to Asbestos Corp., which made the sealant used by the Navy.(Full story)
  
  
• W.R. Grace & Co. reaches a deal that could be worth more than $3 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits by people who say they were sickened by exposure to the company's asbestos products.(Full story)
  
  
• Family of man who died from an asbestos-related cancer wins more than $30 million from a New Jersey jury.(Full story)
  
  
• Planet Toys asks stores to pull its CSI Fingerprint Examination Kit from the shelves over asbestos fears.(Full story)
  
  
• Jury returns $2.6 million verdict in favor of the family of a man who died of an asbestos-related illness.(Full story)
  
  
• OSHA orders Chili general contracting company to pay nearly $100,000 in federal fines on allegations that workers were exposed to asbestos hazards while demolishing a former hospital.(Full story)
  
  
• In Arkansas, Altus City Council agrees to accept a mediated settlement in a lawsuit filed by property owners who alleged the city damaged their property by using hazardous material, including asbestos, as fill for a 2001 drainage project.(Full story)
  
  
• Jury awards pipe fitter and his wife $8.2 million in a verdict against Union Carbide Corp. and Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. for knowingly exposing him and other workers to asbestos.(Full story)
  
  
• Dana Corp. wins court approval to pay as much as $2 million to settle about 7,500 personal-injury lawsuits over automotive gaskets it made that contained asbestos.(Full story)
  
  
• New York City wants to cut a billion-dollar deal with 9,000 Ground Zero workers who blame their lingering illnesses on toxins, such as asbestos, inhaled at The Pile.(Full story)
  
  
• Former Navy sailor who was exposed to asbestos more than 50 years ago is awarded $35.1 million in compensatory damages after he was diagnosed with cancer.(Full story)
  
  
• Man sues 51 companies, for conspiring to mine, process, sell and distribute asbestos products, suppressing the information pertaining to the fiber's hazardous influence on human health and purposely inflicting him with an asbestos disease.(Full story)
  
  
• Ten U.S. Capitol steamfitters settle a whistle-blower retaliation case against Architect of the Capitol after complaining of asbestos exposure in the tunnels where they work.(Full story)
  
  
• Asbestos disease patients are almost 20 years younger than asbestos patients 20 years ago, according to new study.(Full story)
  
  
• Jury awards $5.55 million to widow of a former shipyard worker diagnosed with mesothelioma. (Full story)
  
  
• Minnesota woman suffering from mesothelioma files asbestos suit against 72 defendant corporations, alleging she was exposed to asbestos fibers on her husband's clothing. (Full story)
  
  
• Widow of former shipyard worker who died from exposure to asbestos is awarded $5.55 million by Virginia jury. April 16, 2007 (Full story)
  

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