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Mr Kay, a graduate. Four months before his death from mesothelioma, a cruel and invariably. There was a level of dust that. You could taste it in your mouth.” Mr. Kay said his employers never gave him protective equipment, even though. They should have provided me with appropriate guidance, information. His solicitor Paul Webber said: “Jonathan Kay fought hard for justice. Despite. clearly being in extreme pain, he continued in his quest. Barry Welch (right) was just 3. April 2. 00. 5, his death the result of a. His. exposure to the fatal fibre is thought to have occurred in childhood. Hazards. 9. 1). Neither Jonathan nor Barry had spent years in highly polluted heavy industry. One in four will die from cancer. More. than a quarter of a million people in the UK are diagnosed with cancer. Figures for England alone in 2. The UK figure for 2. Cancer death rates in the UK have changed little since 1. Cancer became the most common cause. Cancer accounted for about 2. 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Find, register, or learn about races, local events, spor. ![]() ![]() Primary prevention – removing the risks – could prevent. But too little official regard for the risks. Hospital asbestos killed. In August 2. 00. 5, the family of a nurse who died after being exposed. Rebecca Little (right), 5. Catterick, died in February 2. Her family, with legal support. Mrs Little’s union Amicus, had fought to prove her illness. London hospital in the 1. Mrs Little trained as a nurse at the former Charing Cross Hospital. Her husband, Dr Julian Little, also worked. He said his wife’s motive in. Adrian Budgen, a partner with Irwin Mitchell solicitors, represented. Little family. He said the number of mesothelioma cases are. Particularly. shocking, however, is that mesothelioma, once thought to be an 'old. Irwin Mitchell also represented the family of hospital cleaner. Vanda Johansson- Corcoran, who died in October 2. An inquest ruled in September 2. Airedale Hospital, Steeton. Keighley. She had worked as a cleaner at the hospital from. August 2. 00. 2. Barry Welch was just. April 2. 00. 5. Melvin Raymond was. February, Derek Trelfa was 6. January and Sylvie Tapley. Janet Watson were both just 5. Joiner Ian Lunn who died in. August 2. 00. 4 was 6. Ian Cruickshank only 5. Former. electrician and organic farmer Raymond Gould died in August 2. Cleaning company boss Mike Brien died of mesothelioma. March, aged 5. 3. Two of the most common work- related cancers, mesothelioma and lung. The mortality rate for lung cancer. UK is 9. 5 per cent. No protection, no warning, no action. Jim Smith is recovering from a May 2. The doctor found blood. Jim joined the gas board in his mid- teens as an apprentice electrician. He was made redundant as Britain’s North Sea natural. Since then he’s worked in “clean” jobs in offices and. I had to climb into the retorts and fix lights for maintenance workers. There was no discussion. If you were lucky. You even had to provide your. Working in the retort house, where the gas was produced, was known to. When you went to shower you were covered in this brown stuff. Since then I’ve had these marks, warts, on. He also had to work under the large gasometers that used. I once sank up to my neck in brown, tarry gas waste. They. had to hose me down and couldn’t even get it off then.”The tarry waste is rich in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and. Direct contact with the skin is known to lead to an increased. And Jim had other exposures to. Carbon tetrachloride. Asbestos lagging was everywhere.“I’ve been told the gas board was aware of the problems in. Jim. I’m a bit bewildered by it all. When the doctors told me. I had cancer it was a shock. Then you start to ask why, what caused this. The medical people don’t want. Since the operation Jim, now aged 5. My sleeping. pattern has been thrown to hell. I’m going through all this now. I feel dreadful about it. Then maybe I’d have. They never contacted me. They never. said anything.”Jim’s is not an isolated case. Simon Pickvance of SOHAS, who first. Jim of the link between bladder cancer and work in town gas production. Sheffield area alone he has “seen several town gas plant. Keith Mc. Fadzien Jones was barely out of childhood when he first worked. In February 2. 00. It’s terribly wrong,” he says. I had been cared for all those. They did not provide that care. Asbestos board was everywhere, it was cheap. They were getting. Keith was 1. 5 when he was taken on by a joinery offshoot of Sheffield. Gleesons. He used disposable masks “for the sawdust. It must have been the same with the asbestos.“We made it into firedoors and other panels. The foreman said it. We were working. quite willy- nilly with asbestolux. Being told it was asbestos- free made. Keith left the firm aged 2. By then, though, the damage was. He first experienced symptoms, shortness of breath and “a. I’d been punched in the back” in September 2. Russia on his honeymoon. He has not been able to work. November 2. 00. 4 because of his mesothelioma, a cancer his surgeon. According to Keith: “I. It was just as though someone is stood. I couldn’t breathe.”He has since had a radical extrapleural- pneumonectomy, a rare, experimental. UK which involved him “being opened up front and. Surgeons. say it is about the most extreme operation a human body might survive. He knows all this is probably. I know how deadly the thing is. I’ve been given a chance. When I was diagnosed I was. Christian beliefs. I have pulled myself together. I have a new wife and three kids and two. Another grandchild is due in January.”He now receives a disability pension but his wife, who is Russian and. But it’s her that. I feel unwell, who has to take. It’s so unfair on her.“I just plod on and keep going but it devastates families. My eldest. a teacher, became ill with stress – he’d thought dad was indestructible. These industrial cancers, then tend to ignore. This is a bloody problem and is going to be in the future.”These cases are not exceptional. Tens of millions of UK workers have. They were not warned of. They were not provided protection. And their employers did. And the response of the UK government. Full. case history. Full. case history. Full. case history. Full. case history. Downplaying the cancer risks. Working out the relative contribution of lifestyle, diet. The Health and Safety Executive’s cancer. HSE’s best guess. It says: “Our. current best estimate is the proportion of cancer deaths in Great Britain. Applying these. estimates to the latest five year’s mortality data for Great Britain. This HSE estimate is cribbed from one study, which concluded cancer was. They estimated that 4 per. It added: “Although, this estimate relates to the US over two decades. Great Britain today and remains. An annual total of 6,0. It is almost double the annual number of. However, HSE has got things badly wrong in two respects. Firstly, a cursory. UK quickly reveals HSE’s. Official figures show 1,8. A 2. 00. 5 British Medical Journal paper put the number. Asbestos related lung cancers alone will at least match the mesothelioma. What HSE doesn’t say is that the Doll/Peto figure is just one of. A simple investigation of Doll/Peto’s. How far short is a matter of debate, but in terms. Even Doll/Peto acknowledged their estimates amounted to no more than. It is possible to identify significant flaws. Doll/Peto which mean it can only be a large under- estimate of the true. This was good news for some, but a death sentence for others. Ex- teacher Alan Anthony died aged 7. May 2. 00. 5. his mesothelioma linked to renovation work in the school he worked at. Hairdresser Janet Watson, who had worked in hair salons. Her death in September. Hospital consultant James Emerson died aged. Thousands have gone on to die from cancers they just shouldn’t. Doll/Peto estimate, including. And asbestos is just one of many potent occupational. Britain’s workplaces. HSE, however, embraced the Doll/Peto figure. The result has been little. Britain’s most lamentable, preventable public health disasters. What Doll. Peto said. Cancer deaths by cause. Pollution. 2%Occupation. Tobacco. 30%Diet. What’s wrong with Doll Peto? More importantly, it has been cited repeatedly. Hazards magazine warned in 1. Hazards 5. 8). A 1. Mt Sinai Journal of Medicine. This paper and others noted that the Doll/Peto estimate was limited to. Cancer is primarily. England. in 2. 00. Occupational cancers by definition only occur in those of working age. We have an aging population –. Doll/Peto not only top sliced the numbers, it only considered cancer. The International. Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), however, classifies 8. A 2. 00. 4 paper in the journal Environmental. Health Perspectives reported that this included 2. Occupational cancer risks to women are almost entirely ignored in the. Doll/Peto analysis, which concentrated on jobs which in the preceding. And Doll/Peto excluded African- Americans from the analysis, a group over- represented. The impact on occupational cancer incidence of the synthetic chemicals. Doll/Peto’s analysis – this only considered a. According to Dr Lorenzo Tomatis, who until 1. International. Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) programme evaluating chemicals, there. A necessary requirement for declaring an environmental chemical. He told a Collegium Ramazzini conference in September 2. Punctilious. precision is used in calculating occupational and environmental risks. He added that Doll/Peto acknowledged. The end result is that cancers are attributed a “lifestyle”. In court depositions in. T& N, Britain’s most prolific asbestos killer. Studies. have linked prostate cancer to exposure to pesticides, metalworking.
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