Asbestos and builder work: We can help those with cancer seek compensation

In recent news about the dangers of exposure to asbestos, a woman is promoting awareness of mesothelioma cancer, after her husband, a builder, fell victim to the disease.

She was widowed in 2005 after her husband died from the mesothelioma form of asbestos cancer, at the age of 66.

Since then, she has dedicated her life to supporting other builders and their family through asbestos disease, and urged construction workers and others in high-risk trades such as boiler workers and pipefitters to beware of mesothelioma cancer, for which there is no known cure.

She said that no protective clothing for asbestos was given to her husband when he worked as a builder in the area from his early 20s, and that such lack of protection proved fatal.

She also urges builders and those in jobs where exposure to asbestos is possible to make themselves aware of the risks of asbestos.

Asbestos can take as long as 30-40 years to be detected, and when her late husband was informed that chemotherapy had not been successful in the February of 2005, there was nothing else that could be done.

Asbestos, a building material used for decades, claims hundreds of lives each year.

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