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Team Lung Love (TLL), as part of the Lung Cancer Alliance, has sponsored a team to run the upcoming Marine Corps Marathon in Washington DC on October 30, 2011.  TLL is a program that raises awareness and support for patients and families touched by lung cancer.
Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a rather rare form of lung [...]

After years of battling a rare form of pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs, innovator and co-founder and former CEO of Apple, died yesterday. Jobs was diagnosed in 2004 after a biopsy revealed neuroendocrine tumors, which develop in the hormone-producing cells of the pancreas.  His particular type of pancreatic cancer typically grows slower than more common [...]

Excela Health, located in southwestern Pennsylvania, has three acute care hospitals as well as offers a wide array of services that include prevention, home care, cancer care, hospice, outpatient rehabilitation, and diagnostic testing and imaging.  Excela recently partnered with University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (UPMC) to offer outpatient care and diagnostic testing for lung cancer, [...]

I sit in front of the computer…mind oscillating between being seemingly numb to running a million thoughts a minute.  The office is unusually quiet today, none of the usual whispered gossip, expressions of frustration, jovial camaraderie at lunchtime.  We are waiting for a call from the doctor, who will tell us if our office manager, [...]

A short two week trial in the New York Supreme Court ended with a victory for mesothelioma victim and former laboratory chemist James Ginter late last week.  Ginter spent a good portion of his working career at the Durez Plastics Plant in North Tonawanda, New York.  It was here that his job put him in [...]

In all the years that we have represented clients who have mesothelioma – and that’s more than 30!- I have never seen such a creative fundraiser to help someone who has been diagnosed with this fatal form of cancer.  Jesse Valdez, owner of Dream Rooms Furniture Store in Houston, Texas, put out a challenge to [...]

Mesothelioma is a disease that typically goes unnoticed for the 20 to 40 years between exposure to asbestos and diagnosis.  That’s why everyone was shocked when a young high school football star in Pasadena, California died months after being diagnosed with this rare form of cancer.  Though mesothelioma strikes nearly 3,000 people annually in the [...]

A pizza chef from Salisbury, near Wiltshire in England, settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money rumored to be more than 6 figures after he developed mesothelioma due to exposure to asbestos while working at La Gondola Restaurant.
Luigi Pes was only 57 when he was diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma, a rare [...]

Many veterans and current Naval shipyard workers and those stationed aboard Navy ships live with the concern that they may have been exposed to asbestos and are at risk of eventually developing mesothelioma or asbestosis, two deadly diseases caused by asbestos exposure.   Recently, we have received several inquiries from former naval seamen and ship repairmen [...]

Lung cancer affects over 170,000 Americans on a yearly basis, making it the most common cancer and the most deadly with 80% of patients dying within 5 years of diagnosis.  The leading cause of lung cancer in the United States remains tobacco usage.
Current or past smokers have been estimated to make up as much as [...]