Mesothelioma rarely comes with a positive prognosis. Most patients diagnosed with the disease will not survive for longer than two years. It’s an extremely aggressive form of cancer that requires a total lifestyle change if you’re going to overcome the odds.
Survivors like Paul Kraus are inspirations within the mesothelioma community as they are living proof that this disease can be beaten. So what do you need to know about mesothelioma?
What is Mesothelioma Really?
Mesothelioma is primarily caused by exposure to asbestos. It comes with a long latency period of between 35 and 50 years, depending on the type of mesothelioma. That’s why mesothelioma across the country. More than 90% of cases are defined by two types of mesothelioma: pleural and peritoneal.
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Abderrahim El Ouali
CASABLANCA, Sep 29 2007 (IPS) – Industrial pollution is causing at least two billion euros worth of damage every year in Morocco, environmentalists estimate.
This is a serious problem in Morocco and the situation is getting worse and worse, environmentalist Mahfoud Atif from the independent watchdog Modernity told IPS.
The last official study into industrial pollution was carried out by the ministry of environment in 2004. The study that looked at 220 industrial units showed that 81 of these are extremely polluting.
The food-processing industry comes first, generating 68 percent of toxic and organic refuse. Olive oil industrial refuse is the main source of pollution of water sources, especially the main rivers Oum Rabî and Sebou.
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Diego Cevallos* – Tierramérica
MEXICO CITY, Dec 26 2008 (IPS) – The Mexican mining company Autlán maintains that there is no evidence that manganese causes any harm to human health. But in the central state of Hidalgo, where the metal is mined, adults shake as if they suffered from Parkinson s disease and children s mental development lags behind normal.
Autlán mining operations in the mountains of Hidalgo. Credit: Courtesy of INSP
The company takes a sceptical position (about studies that show the effe…
Shari Nijman interviews JUNE OSCAR, CEO of Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women’s Resource Centre
UNITED NATIONS, May 22 2009 (IPS) – In 2007, a group of aboriginal women from Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia decided that the only thing that could save their community from going under was to impose a complete ban on the sales of takeaway alcohol.
June Oscar Credit: Shari Nijman/IPS
In the previous year, the community had witnessed 13 suicides and many alcohol-related deaths, resulting into a funeral every week. By pushing for a drinking ban, the women of Fitzroy Crossing hoped that the …
Children in drought-struck Camotán, in Chiquimula province, Guatemala. Experts say climate change has reduced crop yields around the world. Credit:Danilo Valladares/IPS
WASHINGTON, May 23 2014 (IPS) – The U.S. government has pledged to reduce the number of chronically malnourished children around the world by at least two million over the next half decade, receiving an initial positive response from the development community.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the new programme Thursday at a major food security summit here. Government officials are also promising to maintain acute malnutrition rates at below 15 percent in areas affli…
Asian nations fear that the Paris Climate Deal will be a watered down minimalistic product without any teeth. Credit: Amantha Perera/IPS
NEW DELHI, India, Nov 22 2015 (IPS) – On a late Friday afternoon as choking smog descended on the Indian Capital, Francois Richier, the French ambassador to India , took some hard questions from scores of journalists about the upcoming climate change talks in Paris this month.
The journalists were discussing the run up to global climate change Conference of Parties, COP 21, which starts 30th November in Paris and one of the reoccurring sentiments was that this meeting is a done deal and that little if anything would be accomplished. Tha…
This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group.
DUBAI, Dec 21 2018 (IPS) – The media globally tends to have a bias to negative, sensational and headline grabbing stories and events and this certainly applies to reporting related to human trafficking in the third world. With the abundance of stories around sweat shops, massage parlours and organ trafficking networks happening ‘somewhere else’, the West is generally desensitised, lacks empathy and fails to fully appreciate the scale of the problem which sits right under their noses and in plain sight.
Romy Hawatt
It is a fact that for…
Dr Shafi Bhuiyan with colleagues. He and his colleagues argue that COVID-19 has exposed gaps in the Canadian healthcare system.
Toronto, Canada, Sep 3 2021 (IPS) – Access to quality healthcare is a basic human right, but for many, especially those in vulnerable communities, the right is not fully realized.
The exposed this in the Canadian healthcare system.
While surgical backlogs and delayed appointments may be prominent features of the healthcare crisis, the indirect impacts of Covid-19 must be considered. These include a , such as cancer screenings, declining health among Indigenous and aging people and for those with chronic illnesses, as well as worseni…