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Who is at increased risk for developing mesothelioma?

Asbestos-related diseases are dose-related diseases, meaning the risk increases with more exposure and longer exposure times. Unfortunately this does not always hold true, as some people who have only been exposed for a short period of time have developed mesothelioma.
Workers in the following trades have historically been exposed to asbestos-containing products, especially if such worked was performed prior to the mid-1970s. The following are examples of such trades; however, even if you did not work in these trades but worked around these trades at job sites where it was used, you may have been exposed.

Louisiana Work Sites (ALPHABETICAL)

-Agrico Chemical (Faustina Plant)
-Agrico Fertilizer Plant
-Air Liquide
-Air Products
-Air Products Plant
-Akzo Noble Salt Plant
-Albania Sugar Refinery
-Albemarle fka Ethyl Chemical Plant
-Algiers Naval Station
-Allen Millwork Plant
-Allied Chemical Plant
-Allied Chemical Plant Docks
-Allied Signal
-Alma Plantation Sugar Refinery
-Alphine Mudd
-Amax Metals Plant
-American Compress Plant
-American Cyanamid Plant
-American Legion Hospital
-American Marine Shipyard
-American Standard Chemical Plant
-American Sugar Refinery fka Amstar Sugar Refinery fka Domino Sugar Refinery
-Amoco Oil
-Ampacet Color Concentrate Plant
-Arizona Chemical Plant
-Arkla Gas Plant
-AT&T Building
-Atlas Oil Refinery
-Atofina Polystyrene Plant fka Totalfina fka Cosmar Chemical Plant
-Avista
-Avondale Repair Yard
-Avondale Shipyard
-Babcock & Wilcox
-Basell Polyolefins Plastics Plant fka Montell fka Himont fka Hercules Chemical Plant
-Basf/Wyandotte Chemical Plant
-Basis Petroleum Refinery fka Phibro Energy Usa Refinery
-Baton Rouge Coal And Towing Company
-Baton Rouge General Hospital
-Bay Petroleum Oil Refinery
-Becker Chemical Plant
-Beker Industries, Inc.
-Bentley Motel Building Job Site
-Bestwall Gypsum Plant
-Better Boxing Company Inc.
-Big Cajun #1, #2 & #3 Power Plant
-Billeaud Sugar Factory
-Bird & Son Roofing Plant
-Bogalusa Paper Mill
-Boise Cascade Plywood Plant
-Boise Southern aka Boise Cascade Paper Mill
-Boland Machine Shipyard
-Boland Marine Shipyard
-Bolinger Lumber Supply Company
-Bossier Wire & Cable Corporation
-Bourg Dry Dock & Service
-Brown Container Plant
-Brown Paper Mill
-C.F. Industries Chemical Plant
-Cabot Corporation Carbon Black Plant
-Caddo Parrish Courthouse
-Caire & Gaugnaird Sugar
-Cajun Electric Power Cooperative
-Cajun Sugar Cooperative
-Calcasieu Paper Mill
-Calkraft Paper Mill
-Calumet Lubricants Plant
-Capital Concrete Products Shop
-Cargil Salt Plant
-Cargill Salt Avery Island
-Cargill Salt Mine
-Celotex Plant
-Central La Electric
-Central Power & Light Plant
-Central State Hospital
-Certainteed Corporation
-CF Industries Plant
-Charity Hospital
-Charity Hospital Nurse School
-Chevron Chemical Plant
-Chevron Oil Refinery
-Chevron Phillips Chemical Plant
-Ciba-Geigy Chemical Plant
-Cinclare Sugar
-Citcon
-Cit-Con Chemical Plant aka Citgo Lubricant And Wax Plant
-Citgo Oil Refinery
-Citgo Petroleum Corporation
-Cities Service Oil Refinery
-City Of Alexandria
-City Of Houma
-City Of Opelousas
-Clearview Shopping Center
-Cleco
-Cleco Power
-Colonial Sugar Refinery
-Columbian Carbon
-Columbian Chemical Plant
-Columbus Southern Magnesium Plant
-Commercial Solvents Chemical Plant
-Condea Vista "Lake Charles" Chemical Plant fka Conoco Chemical Plant
-Condea Vista Company
-Conoco Oil Refinery
-Consolidated Chemical Plant
-Continental Can
-Continental Carbon
-Continental Carbon Plant
-Continental Oil aka Conoco "Lake Charles" Oil Refinery
-Copolymer Rubber & Chemical
-Coughlin Power Plant
-Crosby Chemical Plant
-Crown Zellerbach Paper Mill
-Cuban American Nickel Company
-Cytec Industries
-D & D Drilling Company
-D & D Equipment Contractors
-Delta Shipyard
-Doc Baldwin Power Plant
-Dolet Hills Power Plant
-Domino Sugar
-Dow Chemical Plant
-Dow Chemical Plant Docks
-Dsm Copolymer Speciality Rubber Plant
-Dugas & Leblanc Sugar Mill
-Dupont
-Dupont Chemical Plant
-East Louisiana State Mental Hospital Building Job Site
-East Thibodaux Middle School
-Enjay Plastics Plant
-Enron/Cow Chemical Plant
-Entergy Center Building
-Equitable Shipyards
-Ethyl Chemical Plant
-Evan Hall Sugar Plant
-Exxon Chemical Plant
-Exxon Gas Plant
-Exxon Oil Refinery
-Exxon Oil Refinery Docks
-Exxon Plastic
-Exxon Refinery & Chemical Plant
-Exxon Service Station
-Exxon Tank Farm
-Exxon-Dow Shop
-Exxonmobil Chemical Plant fka Exxon fka Enjay fka Esso Chemical Plant
-Exxonmobil Oil Refinery fka Exxon fka Standard fka Humble Oil Refinery
-Exxonmobil Plastics Plant fka Exxon Plastics Plant
-Exxonmobil Polyolefins Plant fka Paxon Polymer Plant fka Allied Chemical fka Wr Grace Plastics Plant
-Firestone aka Bridgestone Firestone aka Firestone Polymers Synthetic Rubber Plant
-Firestone Tire & Rubber Plant
-First Nitrogen Plant
-Folgers Coffee Plant
-Formosa Plastics
-Foster Grant Chemical Plant
-Foster Grant Plant
-Freeport Chemical Plant
-Freeport Sulphur
-Freeport Sulphur Chemical Plant
-Freeport Sulphur Mine
-Garden Island Bay Plant
-Gatx Boiler House
-Gatx Storage Tunnel Warehouse
-Gatx Tank Terminal
-Gaylord Container Mill aka Crown Zellerbach Paper Mill
-General Motors Plant
-Georgia Gulf Plant
-Georgia Pacific Paper Mill
-Georgia Pacific Plywood Plant
-Georgia Pacific Pulp & Paper Mill
-Gillis Plant
-Glenwood Sugar Refinery
-Godchaux Sugar Mill
-Godchaux Sugar Refinery
-Good Hope Oil Refinery
-Goodman Refinery
-Grace Chemical Plant
-Grand Isle Sulphur Plant
-GSU/Louisiana Station Power Plant
-Gulf Alliance Chemical Plant
-Gulf Coast Aluminum Plant
-Gulf Menhaden Fisheries Docks
-Gulf Oil Refinery
-Gulf States Fabricating Shop
-Gulf States Power Plant
-Gulf States Utilities
-Gulf States Utilities, Nelson Power Plant
-Gulf States Utilities Powerhouse
-Gulf States/ Pittsburgh Plate & Glass (PPG) Chemical Plant
-Halter Marine Shipyard
-Hanson Disease Center
-Harvey Shipyard
-Hepinstall Steel Fabricating Shop
-Hercules Chemical Plant
-Highland Hospital
-Hillyer Deutsch Edwards Furniture Manufacturer
-Holsum Bakery
-Honey Performance Polymers & Chemicals (Baton Rouge North Works) fka Allied Signal fka Allied Chemical Plant
-Honeywell Hydrofluoric Acid And Specialties Plant fka Allied Signal fka Allied Chemical Plant
-Hooker Chemical Plant
-Houma Light & Water Plant
-Houma Water Plant
-Humble Oil
-Humble Oil Building
-Hunt Shipyard
-Iberia Sugar Processing Plant
-Imc Agrico "Faustina" Phosphate Plant fka Gulf Agrico Chemical Plant
-Imc Global Chemical Plant
-Imperial Chemical Industries (Ici) Chemical Plant
-International Minerals Plant
-International Paper Mill
-International Paper Mill (Louisiana Mill)
-International Piping Systems
-International Salt Plant
-International Salt?Akzo
-Iron Plant
-J. B. Beard Manufacturing Plant
-J.C. Higgins Shipyard
-Jackson Brewery
-Jeanerette Sugar Company
-Jewish Community Center Building Job Site
-Johns Manville Manufacturing Plant
-Jung Hotel Building Job Site
-Kaiser Aluminum
-Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Plant
-Kaiser Aluminum Plant Docks
-Kansas City Southern Railroad Facility
-Koch Nitrogen
-Kraft Paper Mill
-L & N Railroad
-Lafayette Power Plant
-Lafayette Utilities System (Lus)
-Lake Charles Memorial Hospital
-Lapeyrouse Auto Parts
-Laroche Chemical
-Lion Oil Refinery
-Little Gypsy Power Plant
-Lone Star Cement Plant
-Lou Ana Cooking Oil Plant
-Louisiana Army Ordinance Plant
-Louisiana Dock Company
-Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
-Louisiana Ordinance Plant
-Louisiana Pacific Saw Mill
-Louisiana Power & Light (LP&L) Plant
-Louisiana State Office Buildings
-Louisiana State University (LSU)
-Louisiana State University Power Plant
-Louisiana Station/Gulf States Utilities Power Plant
-Louisiana Sugar
-Louisiana Technical University
-Louisiana State University Medical Building
-LP&L
-LP&L Power Plant
-Lula Sugar Factory
-Lykes Brothers Steamship Wharf
-Lyondell "Lake Charles Complex" Chemical Plant fka ARCO fka Olin Mathieson fka Mathieson Alkai
-M A Patout Sugar Mill
-Macs Amoco Service Station
-Madison/ Olin Mathieson Chemical Plant
-Main Iron Works Shipyard
-Marathon Oil Refinery
-Market Street Power Plant
-Martin Marietta Plant
-Maryland Tank Farm
-Mathieson Alkale Works
-McDermott Marine Shipyard
-McDermott Shipyard
-Melamine Chemical Plant
-Michoud Power Plant
-Millwood Packing Company
-Minden Power Plant
-Mobil Oil
-Mobil Oil Refinery
-Mobil Production
-Monochem Chemical Plant
-Monroe Power Plant
-Monsanto Chemical Plant
-Montell USA
-Morton Chemical Plant
-Mosaic A/Ka/ Imc Chemical Company
-Motiva fka Star Enterprise fka Texaco Oil Refinery
-Municipal Power Plant
-Murphy Oil Refinery
-Murphy Oil Refinery fka Ingram Oil Refinery
-Nalco Chemical Plant
-NASA Space Facility
-Natchitoches Power Plant
-National Machinery
-Natural Gas Plant
-Nelson Industrial Steam Plant
-New Orleans Nuclear Power Plant
-New Orleans Powerhouses
-New Orleans Public Service Power Plant
-New Orleans Water Works
-Nine Mile Point Power Plant
-Nine Mile Point Power Plant
-Nine Mile Steam Plant
-Nopsi Market Street Plant
-Northeast College
-Northeast Louisiana State University
-Occidental Chemical
-Occidental Chemical Plant (Oxychem)
-Olin Mathieson Chemical Plant
-Olin Mathieson Paper Mill
-Omega Protein
-Orion Refinery
-Ormet Chemical Plant
-Oronite Chemical Plant
-Owens-Illinois Glass Factory
-Oxy Chemical
-Oxy Chemical Plant
-Oxychem Plant
-P.P.G. Chemical Plant
-Pan American Oil Refinery
-Patout Lumber Yard
-Patout Sugar Refinery
-Patterson Power Plant
-Pennzoil Oil Refinery
-Petro United Chemical Plant
-Petrochem/ Pci/ Butadiene Chemical Plant
-Petrochemical (Pci) Chemical Plant
-Pineville Kraft Paper Mill
-Pineville Kraft Powerhouse
-Pittsburgh Plate Glass (PPG) Chemical Plant
-Placid Oil Refinery
-Port Of Embarkation
-Port Of New Orleans
-PPG Glass Plant
-PPG Industries Plant
-Proctor & Gamble Plant
-Quality Shipyard
-Raceland Raw Sugar Corp
-Rapaides Regional Hospital
-Rayco Shipbuilders And Repairs
-Reed Lumber
-Riegel Paper
-Riverwood Paper Mill
-Rodemacher Power Plant
-Rodemaker Substation Power Plant
-Rollins Environmental Service
-Roy Dupuis Power Plant
-Roy Nelson Power Plant
-Roy O. Martin Saw Mill
-Rubicon Chemical
-Rubicon Chemical Plant
-Ruston Power Plant
-Ryan Airport
-S B A Shipyard
-Schumpert Hospital
-Schumpert Medical Center
-Shell Chemical Plant
-Shell Gas Plant
-Shell Oil Refinery
-Shell Pipeline
-Shintech Plastics Plant fka Borden Chemical & Plastics fka Oxychem fka Firestone Chemical Plant
-Shumpard Hospital
-Smurfit – Stone Paper Mill fka Stone Container fka Continental Can Paper Mill
-Smurfit-Stone Container
-Solvay Chemical
-South Coast Inc. Ashland Plantation
-Southdown Sugar Mill
-Southern Kraft Paper
-Southern Natural Gas Compressor Station
-Southern Shipyard
-Southwestern Electric Power Plant
-St Mary Sugar Mill
-St. Charles Hotel
-St. Francis Hospital
-St. James Sugar Plant
-St. James Sugarmill
-Standard Coffee
-Standard Oil Chemical Plant
-Standard Oil Refinery
-Standard Supply
-State Capitol Building
-State Insurance Building
-State Times Building
-Stauffer Chemical
-Stauffer Chemical Plant
-Sterling Sugar Refinery
-Sterlington Ammonia Plant
-Sterlington Carbon Black Plant
-Sterlington Chemical Refinery
-Sterlington Power Plant
-Sterlington Powerhouse
-Stone Container Paper Mill
-Stone Container Paper Plant
-Stone Hodge Paper Mill
-Sugar Plantation (s)
-Sun Oil (Sunoco) Gas Plant
-Supreme Sugar Plant
-Swepco Office Building
-Swepco Power Plant
-Talleys Feed & Seed
-Temple Inland Paper Mill fka Gaylord Bag aka Graphic Packaging aka Olin Kraft aka Brown Paper Mill aka Manville Forest Products aka Riverwood Paper Mill aka Gra
-Tenneco Oil Refinery
-Texaco Pipeline
-Tide Water Gas Plant
-Todd Johnson Dry Docks, Inc.
-Todd Shipyard
-Transcontinental Gas Pipeline
-Triad Chemical Plant
-Tulane Law School
-Tulane Medical Center
-Tulane University
-Tulane University Delta Primate Center
-U.S. Post Office
-Union Carbide "Taft" Chemical Plant aka Dow Chemical Plant
-Union Carbide Chemical Plant
-Union Compress
-Union Oil Mill
-Union Texas Petroleum Plant
-Universal Oil Products Plant
-Urania Lumber Co. Creosote Plant
-Valentine Pulp & Paper Co.
-Valero Fuels Refinery fka Orion fka Trans Continental fka Transamerican fka Good Hope Refinery
-Vcm Plant
-Vida Sugar Cooperative
-Vista Chemical Plant
-Vulcan Materials Chlorine & Derivatives Plant
-W.R. Grace "Lake Charles" Plant
-Waterford #1, #2, & #3 Power Plant
-Waterford I Nuclear Power Plant
-Waterford II Nuclear Power Plant
-Waterford III Nuclear Power Plant
-Waterman Steamship Wharf
-Weeks Island Salt Mine
-West Monroe Paper Mill
-Westlake Petrochemicals
-Westlake Polymer Plant
-Westvaco Corporation
-Weyerhaeuser Industries Plant
-Willamette Industries Paper Mill
-Willamette OSB Plant
-Willis Knighton Hospital
-Willow Glen Power Plant
-Wilson Packing Co.
-Witco Chemical
-Women's Hospital
-Woodward Wright

Common Trades Exposed (ALPHABETICAL)

-Aerospace and missile production workers
-Aircraft manufacturing production workers
-Aircraft mechanics-Brake and clutch manufacturing and assembly workers-Automobile manufacturing production workers, including automobile mechanics and brake repairers
-Building engineers
-Building Inspectors-Building material products manufacturers-Brakelayers
-Boiler room tenders
-Boilermakers
-Brake mechanics
-Car mechanics and rebuilders, and maintenance personnel
-Carpenters
-Cement plant production workers
-Cement plant production workers
-Clutch mechanics
-Coast Guardsmen
-Construction workers, including insulators, laborers, steel/ironworkers, plumbers, steam fitters, plasterers, drywallers, cement and masonry workers, roofers, tile/linoleum installers, carpenters, [HVAC] mechanics and welders.
-Crane operators
-Custodians
-Demolition and wrecking crews
-Drywall finishers
-Electrical workers, including electricians, electrical linemen, and telephone linemen
-Family members of occupationally exposed people
-Floor coverers
-Furnace workers
-Guard dogs at plants
-Insulators
-Insulation manufacturing plant workers
-Insulators and pipefitters
-Iron workers
-Laborers
-Longshoremen
-Machinists
-Maritime mechanics
-Masons
-Merchant mariners
-Navy Veterans
-Packing and gasket manufacturing plant workers
-Painters
-Paper mill workers
-Pipefitters
-Plasterers
-Plumbers
-Pot tenders
-Powerhouse workers
-Power plant workers
-Protective clothing and glove makers
-Railroad workers, including locomotive mechanics,
-Refinery workers, including insulators and pipefitters
-Refractory products plant workers
-Roofers
-Rubber workers, including tire makers and hose makers
-Sheet metal workers
-Shipyard workers, including electricians, insulators, laborers, laggers, painters, pipefitters, maintenance workers, and welders
-Steamfitters
-Steel workers
-Textile mill workers
-U.S. Navy personnel
-Warehouse workers
-Welders

Common Asbestos-Containing Products (ALPHABETICAL)

-85% Magnesia
-Acoustical products – spray and tile
-Adhesives and cements
-Air cell
-Asphalt products, including tile and sundries
-Automotive, truck, and marine products – including brake linings, pads and shoes, brake blocks, clutch materials, transmission components, gasket materials, shock absorbers
-Brake pads and linings
-Boilers
-Building insulation
-Caulking compounds and coatings
-Ceiling panels, tiles and related sundries
-Cement products, including cement or mortar, board, flooring, panels, pipe, flat and corrugated sheet, siding, shingles, and stucco
-Ceramic or paint fillers
-Cigarette filters
-Commercial or industrial machines and components, including brake linings, clutch facings, thermal insulation, transmission components, gaskets
-Cloth, blankets, felt or paper
-Clutches
-Detackifying/demolding agents
-Drilling mud and drilling additives
-Drywall joint treatment products, including joint compound, joint cement, joint treatment, joint sealant, caulking compounds
-Electrical wires
-Firebrick
-Fireproofing products
-Floor and ceiling tile
-Furnaces
-Gaskets, sheet packing, and molded products
-Gypsum products: fire retardant gypsum board, lath, finishing and taping compounds
-Hair dryers
-Insulating tape
-Insulating cement
-Insulating block
-Joint compounds
-Mastics, as well as coating and sealing products
-Millboard, rollboard, and mineral wool board
-Oven mittens
-Packing
-Paint products – roof coating, floor coating
-Phenolic or plastic resins
-Plastic cement
-Pipe covering/Pipe insulation
-Plaster and plaster products
-Plumbing joint sealant
-Racing helmets
-Refractory products, including clays, cements, shapes, blocks used to build, insulate, or seal structures subjected to high heat such as boilers, furnaces and kilns
-Resilient floor covering products, including tile, sheet, backing and sundries
-Roofing products, including cements, coating, felts, deckings, flashings, paints, shingles
-Rope
-Siding
-Spackling compound
-Thermal insulation products, including pipe insulation, pipe covering, pipe wrap, cement, block insulation, spray and sundries
-Turbines
-Wallboard/Millboard
-Work gloves

What is mesothelioma, symptoms, diagnosis & treatment?

Mesothelioma, or cancer of the mesothelium, is a malignant disease. It is caused by cells of the mesothelium mutating uncontrollably. The mutating cells, or cancer, may invade and damage nearby tissues and organs, or may metastasize, or spread, to other parts of the body. The majority of mesothelioma cases originate in the tissue surrounding the lungs, called the pleura, or the tissue surrounding the stomach, known as the peritoneum.

What are the symptoms of mesothelioma?

Shortness of breath, or dyspnea, and chest pain due to fluid buildup in the pleura are common symptoms of pleural mesothelioma (chest). Weight loss and abdominal swelling and pain due to a buildup of fluid in the abdomen are common symptoms of peritoneal mesothelioma (abdomen). Bowel obstruction, blood clotting problems, listlessness and weakness, and fever are other symptoms of peritoneal mesothelioma. If the cancer spreads to other parts of the body, symptoms may include pain, trouble swallowing, or swelling of the neck or face.

Symptoms of mesothelioma may not appear until 10 to 50 years after initial exposure. These symptoms may be caused by mesothelioma or by other, less serious conditions. It is important to see a doctor about any of these symptoms. Only a doctor can make a diagnosis.

How is mesothelioma diagnosed?

Prior to diagnosis, a doctor must completely review your medical history, including any history of exposure. A doctor may perform a complete physical examination, including x-rays of the chest or abdomen and lung function tests. A CT scan or an [MRI] may also be performed. The detailed X-ray pictures created by CT scans and [MRI]'s assist the doctor diagnose the disease, however, a biopsy is usually necessary to confirm a diagnosis of mesothelioma. A biopsy consists of a surgeon or a medical oncologist (a doctor specializing in cancer treatment) removing a tissue sample for examination. A biopsy may be performed in different areas of the body, depending on the location of the cancer. If the cancer is in the chest, a common procedure a doctor may perform is a thoracoscopy. A thoracoscopy consists of a doctor making a very small incision through the chest wall and placing a small camera called a thoracoscope into the chest between the ribs. The procedure allows the doctor to see inside the chest and obtain tissue samples. If the cancer is in the stomach, the doctor may perform a similar procedure called a peritoneoscopy. Again, the doctor makes a very small incision, and inserts an instrument called a peritoneoscope into the abdominal cavity. If these procedures do not yield enough tissue, more extensive diagnostic surgery may be necessary.

If the doctor diagnoses mesothelioma, it will be important for the doctor to examine the patient to learn the stage (or extent) of the disease. Staging involves more testing to determine if the cancer has spread, and to what extent and where. Staging is an important process in planning treatment.
Mesothelioma is localized if the cancer remains only on the membrane where it originated. It is systemic if it has spread to other parts of the body.

How is mesothelioma treated?
Treatment for mesothelioma depends on the location of the cancer, the stage of the disease, and the patient's age and general health. Treatment options include surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. Sometimes, these treatments are combined.

Surgery
A doctor may remove the affected portion of the lining of the chest or abdomen and the tissue surrounding it. In cases involving cancer of the pleura, a doctor may opt to remove the affected lung in an operation called a pneumonectomy.

Radiation therapy
Radiation therapy uses radiation rays to kill cancer cells and minimize tumors. This treatment affects only the cancer cells in the affected area.

Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is generally used to treat cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. Anticancer drugs are injected into a vein (or intravenously, through IV) to kill cancer cells throughout the body.

Doctors may also use a needle to drain fluid build-up in the chest or abdomen to temporarily relieve symptoms. This procedure is called thoracentesis, for fluid in the chest, and paracentesis, for the abdomen.

What are the risk factors for mesothelioma?

Working in asbestos-laden environments has been proven as the major risk factor for development of mesothelioma. A history of asbestos exposure at work is reported in the vast majority of all mesothelioma cases. However, mesothelioma has been reported in some individuals without any known exposure to asbestos. Further the law firm of Martzell & Bickford has represented numerous family members of occupationally-exposed individuals who brought home asbestos on their work clothes, causing exposure and asbestos diseases to family members in the household.

What is asbestos & risk?

It is the common name for a cluster of natural minerals that have been used in various industries (see site) because of their strength and resistance to heat. The manufacturing processes involving this material include cutting, shaping, grinding, sawing, and manipulating asbestos-containing products, or being in the vicinity of such activity, cause tiny fibers to float in the air. This dust enters the body when breathed through the nose or mouth and indirectly when dust settles on clothing and is later breathed by others who come into direct contact with exposed workers. Also, when work clothing is shaken out and washed at home, the household becomes exposed to the dust released into the air. Many housewives have been exposed to these toxic fibers from simply washing their husbands' work clothes.

When these fibers are inhaled or swallowed, they can cause serious health problems. In addition to mesothelioma, exposure increases the risk of lung cancer, asbestosis, and other cancers, such as larynx and kidney cancer.

Who is at increased risk for developing mesothelioma?

Asbestos-related diseases are dose-related diseases, meaning the risk increases with more exposure and longer exposure times. Unfortunately this does not always hold true, as some people who have only been exposed for a short period of time have developed mesothelioma.

Workers in certain trades (see list) have historically been exposed to asbestos-containing products, especially if such worked was performed prior to the mid-1970s. The following are examples of such trades; however, even if you did not work in these trades but worked around these trades at common job sites where it was used, you may have been exposed.
If you feel you are at risk or have been exposed to asbestos, the attorneys in Louisiana best suited to help you are at the office of Martzell & Bickford. Exposure can mean many things, and if you have been exposed, or have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you need to speak with a lawyer immediately.

Please contact the asbestos attorneys at Martzell & Bickford with any questions about mesothelioma, disease, treatment of mesothelioma, or if you’d like to explore your legal rights. A qualified mesothelioma lawyer at Martzell & Bickford is waiting to receive your call or e-mail.

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