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Another mesothelioma survival story

Posted by Marc in Mesothelioma, Mesothelioma Treatment on July 29, 2010

In another amazing tale of survival from a disease that takes so many, a Beaumont, Tex. television station profiled local firefighter David Chesser — who is now back on the job after battling mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

Having a tough time recovering from a shoulder injury, doctors discovered something far worse. Up for promotion, Chesser was named the new fire chief at the time of his struggle fighting the disease but could not make the ceremony for obvious reasons. His wife stood in his honor to receive the award.

On leave for fourteen months getting treatment in Nebraska, he vowed to return to the department.

“I wanted to be back with these guys. I didn’t want the cancer to make me quit my job,” said Chesser to Beaumont’s KFDM news.

A 36 year veteran at the department, he’s amazingly back on the job fulfilling the duties he vowed to fulfill when he was appointed chief — an act Chesser acknowledges helped him in his fight against meso.

Also giving him strength was a woman he responded to while on the job before his diagnosis:

“I made a run on a sick person she was in her 20′s. I can’t even tell you her name but she reminds me of, probably of an angel. She was so sick she had a brain tumor, but she smiled. She knew she may never come home and that made an impact on my life,” said Chesser.

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Woman blames father’s employers for asbestos exposure

Posted by Emily in Asbestos Exposure on May 15, 2008

A Texas woman suffering from mesothelioma is blaming her father’s employers for her exposure to asbestos.

Cynthia Leigh Chason named at least three defendants she believed caused her father to work among asbestos. Cynthia suspects that he was exposed to asbestos consistently for about 20 years, and during this time brought fibers home on his clothing. He worked for Marathon Petroleum Company and as a contractor at BASF Corporation and shipyards.

The claim states Chason “was exposed to large quantities of asbestos from the products and/or machinery manufactured, sold, designed, supplied, distributed, mined, milled relabeled, resold, processed, applied, or installed by the above-named Defendants.”

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Second suit names 35 defendants

Posted by Emily in Asbestos Exposure, Asbestos Legal Help on May 12, 2008

Earnest L. Edwards of Texas spent his life working as a pipe-fitter and consistently came in contact with asbestos. When he was diagnosed with asbestos-related disease, he filed a lawsuit and received compensation. Now deceased, Earnest’s family is suing for a “different malignant asbestos-related injury,” which they claim ended his life.

The suit names 35 defendants who, according to the claim, knowingly put Earnest and other employees at risk by failing to warn them of the risks associated with asbestos and insisting on using the material even when safer substitutes were available.

Though Earnest sued while he was alive, a 2000 precedent in Texas determined that an individual may sue again if he/she develops cancer after the original claim. The opinion overruled a long history of Texas cases holding that a person may only bring one lawsuit for an asbestos-related injury, even if he develops a second, catastrophic asbestos-related cancer at a much later date.

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