Lung Cancer Awareness Month
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, an initiative started by a coalition of leading international research and advocacy organisations. Their aim each November is to get together to attempt to improve outcomes for lung cancer patients across the world. The campaign encourages people with potential symptoms of lung cancer such as a persistent cough, breathlessness […]
Mesothelioma UK fund asbestos support project in Wales
Between 2015 and 2017, there were 2,727 new cases of mesothelioma diagnosed. In that same period, there were 2,490 deaths due to mesothelioma and between 2013 and 2017, only 7% of mesothelioma patients survived for 5 years or more after diagnosis. Although the above figures look high, mesothelioma is, thankfully, a rare disease. We are […]
Smoking, Asbestos and Lung Cancer
We all know that smoking significantly increases the risk of a person developing lung cancer. Exposure to significant levels of asbestos also increases the risk. The effect of the two things together, smoking and exposure to asbestos, has what is known as a synergistic effect. This means that the two components work together to increase […]
Counterfeit cigarettes could contain asbestos
Southend Trading Standards and Essex Police have worked together to seize a large haul of illegal tobacco products from a shop in Southend. The raid, which took place on Monday 7th September, was the result of tip offs from the public that there were cheap, illegal tobacco products being sold by the shop. Dead insects, […]
Does low dose aspirin increase risk of cancer spreading?
Mesothelioma is an incurable cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. It only takes minimal exposure to asbestos to put someone at risk of developing the cancer. However, not everyone who is exposed to asbestos goes on to develop mesothelioma and the condition is actually rare. There often seems to be no rhyme or reason to […]