$5M Awarded to Retired Contractor Exposed to Asbestos The asbestos attorneys of Worthington & Caron, P.C. are pleased to report that on February 16, 2022, a Santa Monica Jury awarded $5 million to our ... Read More 69 Year-Old Carpenter and Contractor Has “Lived a Good Life" In the summer of 2015, Roy first began experiencing pain on his right side. He of course ignored the pain because if you knew Roy, you would ... Read More Jury Awards $18M to Retired City Government Official The Worthington Caron Law Firm is pleased to report that on October 19, 2016, a Los Angeles jury awarded $18,070,000 to our clients in a case entitled ... Read More Jury Awards $7M to Retired Banker Exposed to Asbestos The Worthington Caron Law Firm is pleased to report that on October 24, 2016 a Los Angeles jury awarded $7,042,300 to our clients in Los Angeles ... Read More 76 Year-Old Plumber, A Very Grateful Mesothelioma Survivor In 1962, John left Germany seeking a new life in the USA. He worked for several plumbing companies until he started to own business in 1976. He said ... Read More Weathering the Storm, 60 Year Old Real Estate Developer At 58 years old, John Doe was leading both a personally and professionally fulfilling life. He was at the top of his game having worked almost 30 ... Read More Family Man Explores Options, Chooses EPP & a Chance for a Cure Preface -- Please Read and Take Action A Mesothelioma Patient's Plea Asbestos is the devil's shill! When breathed it makes us very ill. Where ... Read More Asbestos, Not Rock And Roll, Fells Warren Zevon 8 September 2003, 6:38pm ET SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation extends its condolences to the ... Read More A Tribute To Our Dad, Bill Burgess Authored by Bill Burgess, December 27, 1999 When I was young I used to believe that funeral services were for the benefit of the living. Now I believe ... Read More Speak Up: Reflections from a Nightmare Patient - Me! The below article from the Oncology Times medical journal, was authored by Dr. Andrew D. Lawson, FRCA, FANZCA, MSC, a consultant in Intensive Care, ... Read More "Thanks To Roger Worthington's Website" July 28, 2001 Over the past few years I have used your web-site to gather information on the different trials and patient profiles. Here's my ... Read More Surviving Mesothelioma And Other Cancers: A Patient's Guide In June 1997, Paul Kraus was diagnosed with mesothelioma and given only a few months to live. He rejected surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, and ... Read More Dr. Hammar: "They Should Not Suffer" Dr. Sam Hammar is no ordinary pathologist. The prototypical pathologist is a doctor who hunches over a microscope in a hospital basement, far removed ... Read More Co-Existing With Cancer Or You Thought Living With Your In-Laws "Negativty Kills." So writes Jack Ruda, who has been living with his pleural mesothelioma since 1991. Jack's story is compelling, ... Read More Widow Of Prominent Biologist Blames Doctors For His Death By PAM BELLUCK BOSTON, May 20 - The widow of the eminent evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on Friday against ... Read More Former Navy Man: "Assert Your Rights!" ATTENTION! FORMER U.S. NAVAL VETERANS ASBESTOS EXPOSURE by James Murphy If you served in the U.S. Navy from the 1940's to the 1970's and you ... Read More Daughter Of Mesotheliotic Mr. Worthington, I am a 36 year old whose mother died of mesothelioma at the age of 72, almost three years ago. She worked in a factory in Michigan a ... Read More John McNamara, Titan 4/27/1946 - 10/8/2007 John McNamara's voice fell silent, once and for all, on October 8, 2007. The voice of a champion, the voice of a husband, the voice of a father, ... Read More Every Crisis Presents An Opportunity It’s a beautiful day in San Clemente. The kind of day that might usually be spent fishing with the grandkids off his boat in Dana Point Harbor, ... Read More Against The Odds ATLANTA - Richard Archer's lips draw a tight line as he peruses an old issue of Southern Accents. Through gold-rimmed glasses, he gives the same ... Read More Lifetime Farmer And Irish Fan Plants His Hopes On Alimta Six feet two inches tall, husky at his "fighting" weight of 235 pounds, with the large, meaty hands and leathery skin of a life-long Texas ... Read More Virtually Indestructible In February of 2011, John Elliot went to see his family physician in Erin, Tennessee, complaining of a constant stomach ache and being unusually ... Read More Treating Mesothelioma Robert Taylor was born 63 years ago in Kingsport, Tennessee. To this day, he remains a Tennessee Volunteer football fanatic. He bleeds orange and ... Read More A Candid Interview With Barbara McQueen In 1980, at the tender age of 50, after pursuing "alternative remedies" south of the border, McQueen died from malignant mesothelioma. Steve ... Read More Singer-Songwriter Warren Zevon Dies Of Cancer (KRT) - Warren Zevon, the singer-songwriter known for his sardonic L.A. noir humor and classic-rock radio staples including "Werewolves of ... Read More Cancer Nurse, Survivor & Advocate Succumbs To Mesothelioma Helen Caron was a survivor, in more ways than one. The 86 year-old retired nurse had already survived three bouts of cancer before being diagnosed ... Read More Answered Prayers: CA Pastor Embraces Innovative Treatment Pastor Charles Van Kirk enjoyed lifelong health. In the spring of 2007, however, he noticed shortness of breath when going on lunchtime mountain bike ... Read More 62 Year-Old Surfer, Riding The Rough Waves Of Mesothelioma Mike is a warm and engaging man who possesses the type of physical and spiritual strength that can only be attained from years of surfing. The avid ... Read More Bill Giblin: True Grit Bill Giblin recently passed away leaving two minor children, Matthew (age ten) and Mark ( age seven) and his young wife, Deanne. Before he died, he ... Read More 48-Year-Old Steel Worker Embraces Dr. Sugarbaker's Tri-Modal The On February 23, 1998, Tony Buszinski sought emergency care for a progressively sharp pain in his right chest from the Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, ... Read More Cisplatin, Surgery And Faith Restore Hope For 37 Year Old Wom This is the story of my wife, Susan, who was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma on 1/12/97. She is only 37 years old. She had been having a problem ... Read More Our Story: Johnny & Kimberlee Hough Meet Dr. Robert A. Nagourney Johnny and Kimberlee Hough were married in November, 1993. They spent their first anniversary as husband and wife listening to the diagnosis - ... Read More 68-Year-Old Angler With MM Dangles Several Hooks In The Water Mr. Charley Baker is a sixty-eight (68) year old retired construction worker, avid square dancer and fisherman who lives in a lake house in Canyon ... Read More "Waiting Kills" German Professor Mike Meliss I hoped I would never have to add my father's profile to this page. So many times in the last one-and-half years I read it, always with tears in ... Read More Pop Producer Mickie Most Dies Most, real name Michael Peter Hayes, died at home in north London on Friday. Reported to be worth £50m and credited with producing more No 1 ... Read More Asbestos: The Serpent In The Rock Marilyn Bertrand was only five years old when her brother traveled to the province of Quebec, Canada to take a summer job at Thetford Mines. When he ... Read More Mesothelioma Patient Shares His Story I'm a civil engineer with a master's degree in materials engineering (only of any interest here because I understand the characteristics of ... Read More Lean On Me: Cancer Through A Carer's Eyes My name is Lorraine Kember; my husband was a victim of asbestos. "Lean on Me: Cancer through a Carer's Eyes" is my true story of how I ... Read More Pipefitter And Musician Looks To Dr. Lary Robinson Hugo Delzer is famous in the city of Oconto Falls, Wisconsin. For thirty years, on any weekend, any person in Oconto Falls could go out for a night on ... Read More The Final Tearful Days Of An Educated Man We will miss Harry. He was the sort of man you wanted to help. He never asked for much. He was a "self-made" man and enjoyed the kind of ... Read More Hardworking Family Man Concludes Platar Trial The antique dealer and his wife Faye live in Johnson City, Wisconsin, on a street festooned with Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Badgers flags. Two ... Read More Father Gets Double Dose Of Tragedy A 40 year-old United Airlines mechanic, Christopher Stoeckler made the drive on Mondays from his home in rural Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin to corporate ... Read More Carpenter And Husband Disqualified From Clinical Trial A few short months ago, in the Winter of 2002, 45 year-old Keith Marshall and his wife Kathy were coming up on 20 years of marriage together. He and ... Read More Businessman Loses Battle Against Mesothelioma After 20 Months Irvin Vincent, 71, Luxemburg, died Saturday, September 06, 2003, after a courageous 20 month battle with Mesothelioma, which is caused by exposure to ... Read More The Last One You'd Predict To Have Cancer Even into his sixties, Patrick O'Neil was not ready to stop. He loved his job, which he helped forge in 1973 as one of the founders of O'Neil, ... Read More "I Am Lucky To Be Alive!" Michael Winkelman is a 58 year-old patent attorney and chemical engineer who was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma in March of 2003. Michael and ... Read More Pipeline Worker And Benefactor Navigates Unexpected Turn Walter "Don" Glover is a 72-year-old former pipeline worker from Parkersburg, West Virginia, who was diagnosed with malignant pleural ... Read More Putting "The Fight" Into Perspective Louise Allen were living their dream. Frank toiled for over 35 years as a union electrician and saved up enough to build a house on a remote island, ... Read More Anatomy Of An Extrapleural Pneumonectomy Six months ago, Sam Paffile began to experience fatigue and dark red blotches on his skin. Then on a recent trip to Mexico, Sam developed severe pains ... Read More "Asbestos Cancer: One Man's Experience" In 1989, Kedric Grove was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma. He was 72 years old. He had worked in the foundry of the General Motors plant in ... Read More Mother Who Lost Teenage Daughter To MM Reading about Jorge sure brought back memories. Six years ago this month we lost our beautiful 17 years old daughter Kristen to mesothelioma. When she ... Read More Medical Community Mobilized To Help 17-Year-Old MM Patient Jorge Uribe is a 17 year old teenager who lives in Kennewick, Washington. Like most teenagers, his life had it's fair share of ups and downs. But ... Read More "Our Lives Have Been Turned Up Side Down." Linda Louis first went to the emergency room at Swedish Hospital Medical Center in Seattle, Washington in October of 1997 because she was having chest ... Read More Asbestos Pox Claims Lives Of Mary Andera's Husband And Oldest Br Losing one member of a family to mesothelioma is a tragedy. Losing two is unthinkably tragic, like a curse. This is the story of a woman, Mary Andera, ... Read More Vietnam Veteran Fighting Back Kermit "Kit" Fulton enjoyed excellent health until the Summer of 1997 when he began to experience difficulty swallowing. He underwent an ... Read More MM In Chemo Phase While taking his morning walk in August of this year, Powell White noticed that he was short of breath. He also felt some pain in his back, just below ... Read More Sheetmetal Worker Seeks Help From Dr. Eric Vallières Leroy McGillivray's medical problems began on June 5, 1998, when he experienced severe pain on the right side of his chest. He also noticed he was ... Read More Glen Monks Dedicated His Life To Helping Others I remember like it was yesterday. August 6, 1996. We were in the home of Glen Monks, taking his videotaped deposition. Glen lived in the country on ... Read More Wife Fondly Recalls Husband Taken By Mesothelioma. Duane Leslie McNeill was sixty-one years old when he was diagnosed with sarcomatoid mesothelioma in January of 1999. A father, husband and soulmate, ... Read More Best Treatment Path In Imperfect World Mike Abbott makes tough decisions every day. He’s an Environmental Manager who investigates and manages the clean-up of toxic waste sites. He ... Read More Faced With Mesothelioma Right After Retirement At his pre-retirement company physical in late July, the attending physician told John Haley, "If I sold life insurance, I'd want to sell you ... Read More Dairy Farmer Chooses EPP With Dr. Vallieres As a youngster, Ron Barnes just knew he wanted to be a farmer. He also knew he would need a farm. So he set out early in life to realize his dream. At ... Read More Adventurer Chooses Dr. Vallieres And Life Impressed. It describes most people who have met or known Matt Scott. Whether it's because he effortlessly repaired someone's car, because - ... Read More Seeking Alimta And Cultivating His Garden Pete Gustafson knelt down to show me how he prunes the big pink balls of Sedum Autumn Joy Succulents. He gently brushed aside several honey bees who ... Read More Retirement Halted By Malignant Mesothelioma Vernon "Vern" Braaten grew up on a farm in North Dakota. He and each of his brothers and sisters worked and contributed from an early age. ... Read More Blueprint Of Recovery Robert Treggett is a man of purpose with a zeal for learning and living. In the fall of 2003 Bob was attending Northwest College in Kirkland, ... Read More Following Doctor's Orders Bob Dyer is a 60-year-old retired Navy and civilian marine machinist who lives on 2 ½ acres in Poulsbo, Washington. Bob spends most of his days ... Read More Looking Forward To "Retirement Ruts" After 40 years of dedicated work, Peter Galassi was looking forward to being in "kind of a rut where you have all the time in the world to get ... Read More Union Insulator With Iron Fists The great outdoors southeast of Tacoma left an early and permanent stamp on Tom Reed. One of twelve children, he grew up and lived most of his life in ... Read More Chiropractor Just Wants To Get Back To Fishing Marvin and Karin Anderson live in Gig Harbor, Washington where they enjoy the peaceful outdoors. Marvin's an avid trout fisherman, and he likes ... Read More Mesothelioma Tugs, But Does Not Unravel Donna Walmach, widow of Richard Walmach, grapples with the challenge of expressing how well loved Richard was by her and the children. Merely talking ... Read More Retired Machinist/Sheetmetal Worker Back On The Road Rafe Ledford is a 69-year-old retired Navy machinist and marine sheetmetal worker who lives in beautiful Port Orchard, Washington. When he retired in ... Read More Secretary Heads To Cabo In April of 2009, Kathy Martin first noticed she was having difficulty taking deep breaths. She met with her family physician who performed several ... Read More Malignant Mesothelioma Survivor Taking It One Day At A Time Bonnie Von Dell is a wife, a mother of two, a grandma of three and a mesothelioma survivor. Born in a car as her mother was driving from Minnesota to ... Read More Vancouverite Completes Several Cycles Of Alimta 74 year-old Jane Doe has lived in Washington State all of her life. She and her first husband raised four children, started their own company, and ... Read More Holding Strong And Unwavering Over Mesothelioma Enthusiasm, as defined by Webster’s dictionary: ‘Intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.’ Synonyms of ... Read More Mesothelioma Does Not Respect Rank Or Power Honoring Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and Remembering the Service Connected Asbestos-Induced Mesothelioma That Killed Him (11/21/2011) Mesothelioma, as we ... Read More The Dust He Had Worn Home Killed His Wife Residence: Chesapeake, Virginia Ages: Charles, 70; Rebecca, 68 when she died Exposure to asbestos: Charles - Machinist's mate in Navy, 1951-72 ... Read More Courage For The Battle Ahead A highly decorated Lieutenant Commander, Frank Cowperthwaite retired from the United States Navy in 1978 after serving his country for 24 years. His ... Read More Commander Harrison Starn, Retired Navy Officer The Washington Times February 19, 2006 http://washingtontimes.com/obituary/20060218-105839-1541r.htm Harrison F. Starn Jr., retired Navy commander, ... Read More The Platar "Poster Boy" After retiring in 1990, Truman Evitt was looking forward to traveling and spending time with his family and friends. In 1996, Truman went to his local ... Read More Neither Sloan Kettering Nor MD Anderson Able To Help On June 5, 1998, Sharon Briscoe was a 55-year-old married mother of two grown sons who was living in Richardson, Texas. That day, she became fiercely ... Read More Homeopathic Remedies Tom Tolleson was a sixty (60) year-old Texan and former president of a decal manufacturing company who in 1996 was diagnosed with peritoneal ... Read More Good-Natured Texan Chooses ALIMTA Trial At his family's urging, 54 year-old Texas small business owner Jim Dougherty saw his doctor in May, 1999 for what Jim calls "one of those ... Read More Former Linebacker Wrestles With The Devil And Mesothelioma He started as a sophomore at linebacker for the San Antonio East Central High School football team. Van thinks he could have played varsity as a ... Read More Mesothelioma Robs 23 Year Old Child Prodigy Of Beautiful Life In the words of her father, Elizabeth Clancy was "beautiful inside and out." She took gymnastics from the time she was three years old until ... Read More MM "Still Here" After 44 Months Dear Roger Worthington I was diagnosed with Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma on July 31, 1996 at Hermann Hospital. The original thoracic doctor told my ... Read More Business Owner Now Optimistic About ALIMTA Mark Yaghoobi has always been an active man. He gets up in the morning, rain or shine -- and there is plenty of both in Sugarland, Texas --dons his ... Read More Former Funeral Director And Pastor Cherishes Each Waking Moment Robert "Bob" Hutchison, a 62-year-old former pastor, funeral director and businessman, was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma of the ... Read More Plumber Explores Treatment With Alimta Ralph Lerma, a 78 year-old plumber, was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma of the pleura in September, 2000. He and his wife Inez reside in ... Read More Model And Wife Of Professional Ball Player Fights Mesothelioma Judith and James Koranda were high school sweethearts at Kelley High School in Illinois. While James was scoring touchdowns and sinking jumpers, ... Read More Diary Of A Survivor Edward Lambert has survived more than his share of challenges and close calls with death. He served in the Army Air Corps during WWII, when he flew ... Read More Former Boiler Worker Struggles To Keep Lung Cancer At Bay Just three years ago, John Barnes was making the short commute from his home in Iowa Park to Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, where he worked ... Read More The Difference Between An Ordeal And An Adventure Is Attitude Jim Foster decided to look further than the standard wisdom on treating-or not treating-mesothelioma. Today, three years after diagnosis, he and his ... Read More German Immigrant Fights Mesothelioma On His Own Holger continues to do his daily cardio workout, coming back drenched in sweat, and maintains an active lifestyle. Lynn proudly shares his treadmill ... Read More Farmer's Search For A Cure Hits Medical Brick Wall In July of 1998, 64 year-old Ben Painter was working his Beefalo farm in the scenic hill country of Wartrace, about an hour's drive south of ... Read More "Look Here Mister!" Ron Slaughter, 1975 In 1974, Ronald Slaughter was serving his country in the United States Navy aboard the USS Pyro. After several long months at sea, ... Read More MM Patient Seeks Treatment From Mayo On January 18, Mrs. Elsie Schladweiler, a sixty-five year old Parkston, South Dakota resident made an appointment with doctors at the Yankton Clinic ... Read More Pillar Of Strength Maynard Lewis is a 65-year old retired truck driver and foundry worker who lives in Eutawville, South Carolina with his wife Florence. Maynard and ... Read More Hard Working Boilermaker And Poet-Warrior Dear Mr. Worthington, My Uncle Thomas C. Henderson is dying from lung cancer caused by asbestos. He was a boilermaker. To see him go from a strong ... Read More Quest For A Cure Years ago, John Sterling did Intelligence and Reconnaissance for the U.S. Army. Now he does it for himself, in his own battle with mesothelioma. ... Read More Football Player Tackles Game Plan For Treating Mesothelioma Joseph Brendel has lived the American Dream. He is an 83-year-old retired nuclear engineer who originally came from a 100-acre farm in St. Mary's, ... Read More MM Patient Interviews Several Surgeons, Chooses Dr. Pass In December of 1997, Sylvin Pickner decided he could no longer ignore his nagging cough. He saw his family physician, who diagnosed Sylvin with ... Read More Cycling Helps Brighten Future For Asbestos Worker In 1993, Waymon Shadwick was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. MS adversely affected his mobility, strength, vision and cognitive function. ... Read More Construction Worker Uses Pain Management To Battle His MM James Morse was born and raised in Siren, Wisconsin 65 years ago. When James was 13, he began working for his father, also a carpenter, digging ... Read More Plumber Tells The Grim Reaper To Get Lost In February 1999, Mr. Gilcrease became short of breath. After about a week of this, he went to St. Mary's Hospital in Walla Walla, Washington. A ... Read More Independent Thinker And Master Of Many Trades Rejects Surgery Mac Fournier is a 66-year-old retired boat builder and former Navy boiler tender who was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma in November. Living in ... Read More A Blessing In Disguise It's hard to find something pleasant to say about a big, ornery horse that bolts and throws you for no apparent reason, especially when the crash ... Read More Engineer Learns Something New Mark Neuman is an 82 year-old retired Naval engineer who proudly served the United States Navy between 1941 and 1949 as an Electrician's Mate ... Read More Mesothelioma Takes Life Of Beloved Middle School Teacher In 1956, LeRoy "Lee" Joireman was 18 years old and trying to scrape together some money to attend college. For the next 23 months, until ... Read More "A Very Nice Man" Faces Pleural Mesothelioma As 2001 came to a close about a year ago, 58 year-old Jan Douma (pronounced "doe-muh") had much to look back on and be thankful for, and ... Read More Outdoorsman Seeks Joy In Life During the fall of 2005, Glenn Keeran developed a persistent cough. Because Glenn spent so much time enjoying the outdoors, cutting wood, playing ... Read More The Times, They Have 'A Changed Picture the 1970's: jobs on the decline, unrest in the steamfitters' union about job security, dissatisfaction with the leadership, and ... Read More All-American Mom Puts Mesothelioma In Its Place Healthy, active, and always involved in a dozen different projects, Marilyn Stratton's active lifestyle meant that she was accustomed to lots of ... Read More Mesothelioma Survivor Alice Fox is a sweet woman who loves her family dearly. Alice grew up in Northern Portland in a big house built by her father and grandfather. She was ... Read More Pre-Surgery Chemotherapy Kenneth "Ken" Ramsdell, the 44 year-old son of a railroad man, Navy veteran and businessman who resides with his wife Donna in Tahlequah, ... Read More Chronicle Of A Compassionate Treater Mr. Sherrick was in excellent health until January, 2000, when he grew short of breath. In April, he developed severe pain in his abdomen. St. ... Read More Fighting The Battle In November of 1995, Tom Gorman began to experience acute shortness of breath and sharp pain in his left side that traveled up his back to the base of ... Read More The Consummate Father, Friend And Professional On July 5, 1997, David was admitted to his local hospital to undergo a bronchoscopy and thoracotomy. His right lung had collapsed and his pleural ... Read More MM Gaining Momentum In the early spring of 1998, David began to feel tired and run down. This was highly unusual for David, who was normally robust and full of energy. He ... Read More Pipefitter/Fisherman Mantains Sense Of Humor Seventy-nine year-old Harold Kern worked as a pipefitter for over 32 years, primarily in Ohio, but in Michigan and California as well. Over the course ... Read More Lifelong Cincinnatian's Fight With Mesothelioma Fifty-three years ago, Cincinnatian Jack Crable and seven of his pals decided they would all join the Army. In January of 1949, they all did it, too, ... Read More Fight With Prayer, Positive Thinking - And A Little Golf George Barg, a 70 year-old Asheville, North Carolina resident, diagnosed in September, 1996 with pleural mesothelioma, continues to amaze his doctors ... Read More True Grit Dr. Bret Williams, a 52 year‑old internal medicine doctor, lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina with his wife Julie and their three children: ... Read More A Beautiful Life Elvira Gonzalez died at the age of 58 from pleural mesothelioma. She was born in Cuba. The bulk of her asbestos exposure occurred when she washed her ... Read More Son Remembers How Dad, Dying From Asbestos, Made Him Laugh My dad, Eugene Clare, died of an asbestos-related lung cancer March 16, 1995, 54 years young. After spending several weeks in and out of Roswell Park ... Read More Heart To Spare George Becker is a fifty-two year old machine operator diagnosed on February 12, 1999 with malignant mesothelioma of the pleura, or the lining of the ... Read More GABE HOZ: Courage Gabe Hoz was a young man who died of mesothelioma at the age of 40. He was diagnosed with abdominal mesothelioma in November, 1995. He consulted with ... Read More Random Acts Of Kindness Norman Yeamans is a 72 year old retired physicist who worked for the U.S. Army Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, NJ. In 1972, in competition ... Read More Florist Bravely Makes Peritoneal Mesothelioma Her "Project" Jacqueline "Jackie" George, a 53-year-old florist, wife, mother of two fine sons, and grandmother, was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma ... Read More A Fighting Chance Against Mesothelioma Felix Tarantino is a 56 year old former boilermaker with four years of service in the U.S. Navy. He was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma on March ... Read More Hope For Life As An Old Man And The Sea Rob Maher knew from an early age that he would make his life at sea. He began maritime training in New York City during high school. He started this ... Read More Lead Him To Additional Encores If, during the summer of 2004, you lived in Middlesex County, New Jersey you might have spent a warm afternoon or evening enjoying the upbeat ... Read More MM Looks Forward To 50th Wedding Anniversary Harry and his wife Peggy moved from New York City to Las Vegas in 1987 to enjoy their retirement in a warm climate. Harry was an avid walker who was ... Read More Professor Researches Treatments In early 1997, James Benson of Henderson, Nevada, learned two things which shocked him. He had always been in excellent health, but in January 1997 he ... Read More Minister And Fireman Saved Others, But Could Not Save Himself Just a few months ago, at 70 years of age, Charles "Chuck" Shook was a lion of a man. He stood an inch shy of six feet, and weighed in at a ... Read More Mother Of Three Fights To Beat Odds Of Pleural Mesothelioma Sandie Knutson, a 58-year-old wife and mother of three grown children, first attributed the nagging pain on her right side from trying to do too many ... Read More Teacher Formulates A Lesson Plan Against Mesothelioma Jack Holmes had always enjoyed good health. He and his wife, Elaine are both retired educators. Since 1964, Jack has taught mathematics to middle ... Read More Contractor Frames His Treatment Plan Randy Evens is a 66 year-old recently retired general contractor who lives in Carson City, Nevada with his wife Virginia. In July of 2011, Randy first ... Read More MM Patient Looks Through "Open Window" Towards Brighter Future Robert "Bob" Rahe is a 50 year old, self-employed entrepreneur and former school teacher who has malignant pleural mesothelioma. Bob's ... Read More No Time To Grieve Helen Richter is a 75 year old wife and mother of seven children. She was diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma on July 13, 1998. She was ... Read More "Five Years From Now, I Will Still Be Here!" Paul Coyle, 57 year-old devoted husband, father and golfer, was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma on February 18, 2000. The owner of a successful ... Read More Writer Beats Back MM Bill Tice, an incomplete quadriplegic and writer, was previously diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma at Alton-Ochsner Hospital in New Orleans in the ... Read More In Search Of A Cure In December of 1996, Glenn Barnes went to his doctor in Jackson, Mississippi, complaining of shortness of breath and chest pain. His cardiologist ... Read More Lumberton Man Won’t Let Mesothelioma Pen Him In Alton "Red" Barrett and his wife, Evahnell live on 70 acres of well-kept farm land in Lumberton, Mississippi. Retired since 1986, Red is an ... Read More Continued Health And Happiness Moss Point is located in the southeastern tip of Mississippi along the Pascagoula River Basin. The Pascagoula River is the continental United ... Read More Mississippi Crime Fighter Now Fights Mesothelioma Ted Munn was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1940. His warm and friendly southern persona shines through in everything he does. Hardworking, ... Read More U.S. Rep. Bruce Vento Diagnosed With Malignant Mesothelioma Rep. Vento was diagnosed by doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. According to the Congressman: "Recent medical exams have revealed that I ... Read More Rugged Outdoorsman And Contractor To Seek Cure Until about a year ago, life was very good for 63-year-old Ernest "Ernie" Kasprick, a self-employed contractor, and his wife Beverly. Ernie ... Read More Tribute To Sherry Swanstrom Sherry K. Swanstrom lost her battle to mesothelioma on January 27, 2008 at the age of 51. I met Sherry eleven years ago as my new boss, and I remember ... Read More EPP Ruled Out Albert Tkac is a seventy (70) year old retired boiler tender from Battle Creek, Michigan. Mr. Tkac proudly served his country during The War as a ... Read More Faith, Family And Friends Inspires Couple To Fight Mesothelioma In the middle of February this year, 53 year old Michigan siding salesman Fred Ockerman started having trouble breathing. Fred ignored the pain at ... Read More Hotel Manager Evaluates Experimental Therapies Around October, 1999, 53 year-old housewife and hotel manager Carol Miller began feeling sick, with flu-type symptoms. She developed a deep, dry ... Read More Former Soccer Player Takes His Shot At Mesothelioma In 1965, at the age of 25, Carl Panozzo (a devout Roman Catholic) left his native Vicenza, Italy, which he lovingly refers to as "the old ... Read More Body Wracked By Mesothelioma John Pomranky was born in Midland, Michigan. His forefathers were among the first pioneers of Midland, their name gracing many streets and parks in ... Read More Harvard Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould Dies Mon May 20, 7:07 PM ET By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who unlocked the mysteries of evolution for millions of ... Read More "Think Years, Not Months." I feel it important to let you know that through your web page I, an 80-year-old male diagnosed with mesothelioma, made contact by email with Dr. ... Read More Restored Hope To Family Daniel D'Amico was an 82-year-old retired welder and foreman who was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma in the Fall of 1998 in Worcester, ... Read More "This Is So Unfair" Towards the end of 1999, sixty-two year old Nelson "Nellie" Lachapelle made an appointment with his doctor in Worcester, Massachusetts. He ... Read More Alternative Treatments From the time he graduated high school in 1940 until his retirement in 1986, Louis DiBona was a hard working coppersmith/pipefitter at the Quincy ... Read More One Breath At A Time Before the Fall of 2001, Navy veteran Lee Brackett spoke quickly, crisply, and forcefully, with an unmistakable Yankee accent and attitude, ... Read More Tough Battle For A Brave Naval Officer After thirty years of faithful service in the United States Navy, Captain Albert Carpenter retired on July 1, 1973. During his thirty years of ... Read More "If The Lord Wants Me Now, I Am Ready To Go." In mid March of 1997, Mr. Vincent "Nap" Napoli was beginning to think that his persistent cough was more than a virus. One morning he woke ... Read More Vietnam Vet Beats Peritoneal Mesothelioma, Twice The below was originall posted in 2012. Here is the latest update from Mr. Tom Bradford, in his own words: September 2, 2014 "Almost two years ... Read More Sea And Land Nomad With Malignant Mesothelioma Rodney Steenbergen is a 63 year-old former machinist's mate with nineteen years of service in the U.S. Navy, most of it spent at sea, and another ... Read More Head In The Game When asked about hobbies, Douglas Marr will tell you he never had time for any of those. He enlisted in the Navy in 1961 -- to do the "buddy ... Read More Church Deacon Holds Ground Against Malignant Mesothelioma Joe Goins is a 66-year-old retired machinist and longtime Baptist deacon. A humble man who is frugal with himself and giving to others, Joe has lived ... Read More Navy Chief Vows To Continue Sailing With Alimta/Cisplatin Earl "Skip" Haupt is a 66-year-old retired Navy Chief who spends his days tending his land in beautiful Breeding, Kentucky. Before the sun ... Read More "Life Just Beginning" After returning from a family vacation in Las Vegas in June of this year, John Kroemer began to experience severe night sweats. He was becoming ... Read More "I Hate This Disease" I lost my father on October 21, 1997, after a twenty month battle with malignant mesothelioma. My dad was 67 years old. In April, 1996, he began to ... Read More 54-Year-Old Engineer Happy To Find Dr. Harvey Pass In March of 1999, Bob Elliott, 54-year-old husband, father of four and electrical engineer, felt he could not shake a hacking cough that had cursed ... Read More Rallies For The Treatment Ahead Sharon's doctors assured her that it was irritable bowel syndrome or diverticulitis, nothing too serious. But Sharon's abdominal pain ... Read More Indiana Engineer With MM Interview Introduction to the "M" word In July 1999, my husband, Allan Ostling, was hospitalized with shortness of breath and a partially collapsed ... Read More Engineer Faces Setbacks With Patience 62 year-old former boilermaker and retired engineer Allan Ostling lives with his wife Jackie in Northern Indiana. The Ostlings live in a house that ... Read More All Out Fight With Mesothelioma Ted Cichocki (pronounced "che-hockey"), a 67 year old former pipefitter and 39-year employee at Inland Steel in East Chicago, Indiana, was ... Read More Bird Dog Aficionado Points To Chelation Therapy In September of 1999, 68 year-old Tom Love was hunting grouse and woodcock in Michigan with some of his lifelong friends. Tom says that normally he ... Read More Mesothelioma Tests Mettle Robert "Dusty" Rhodes, a 63 year-old Navy veteran and former steelworker from Crown Point, Indiana, can take the heat. He worked more than ... Read More Boilermaker And Laborer Goes "Wheels Off" With Mesothelioma Marty Mitchell is a 48 year-old bricklayer and refractory mason who was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He grew up in a crowded home, with six brothers ... 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He woke early in the morning and always ... Read More "Get Back On That Horse." Yvonne Thorp describes her 53 year old husband Don as a "workaholic." It sounds bad until you hear what kind of work Don enjoys. Don works ... Read More Mesothelioma Patient Vows To Finish Atlanta 10k Run For the past few months ( circa 1997 ) I have been corresponding with a very special lady. She has been called a "miracle" by her doctor. ... Read More Embrace Immunochemotherapy Mr. Winfrey's doctors in Georgia referred him to a lung specialist who attempted to drain the fluid from his lung. The doctor could only capture ... Read More Preacher Put Faith In God, Family, and Friends In December of 1997, while working in Chicago, Illinois, Charles Cox was lifting a heavy box and felt something "snap" in his right rib ... Read More Learning To Smile Again Fourteen months ago, 54 year old executive Vito Bell was living the good life in Alpharetta, one of the tony suburbs north of Atlanta, Georgia. He ... Read More Sharecropper's Son Continues To Spur His Mesothelioma Charles Copeland is a 64 year-old native Georgian and the son of a sharecropper born and raised in Valdosta, Georgia. As a youngster, Charles shared ... Read More Mesothelioma Patient's Smile Increases How do you describe Jean Laatsch? Charming? Delightful? Positive? Sunny? She may have been born and raised in the Midwest, but this young lady ... Read More "Thanks For Contribution To My Life" On September 7, 1997, we were contacted by Frank, a 77 year old retired airlines operations controller. In June of this year, Frank began to ... Read More A Fighting Chance Richard Robbins, a 58 year-old real estate developer and hotel management consultant, was on top of the world. It was 1997, and he had just been named ... Read More Haunted By Deadly Dust William "Bill" Burgess was born sixty-six years ago in Canton, Ohio. Canton is a steel town -- a town that captures the blue collar work ... Read More Facing Mesothelioma Dave Galea is a 73-year-old retired Navy veteran and boiler operator who was diagnosed with biphasic pleural mesothelioma on January 25, 2001. He and ... Read More Mesothelioma's Storm Joseph "Joe" Galarneau, a 75 year old retired laborer, boilermaker and Merchant Marine, was diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma ... Read More He Chooses To Cope A picture of health, Dr. James Towery was enjoying his retirement in Parrish, Florida with a zest we all wish for. An avid runner, golfer, grandfather ... Read More Hopes To Get Back To Restoration Work With Alimta George Murphy is a "hard-working Jersey man." Born in Orange, New Jersey and raised in Newark, he has held a job since he was a young boy. ... Read More Titanic Struggle With Mesothelioma Born in the ancient city of Athens, Greece in 1933, during the height of the Great Depression, Kerry Stamas survived. Hundreds of thousands of Greek ... 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Richard isn't happy if he isn't working. In their 44-year marriage, his wife Florida doesn't ... Read More The Wallics "Have Been There And Back" Frank arranged a follow-up examination with his primary doctor. Frank complained that he was plagued with a shortness of breath when he exerted ... Read More Former Powerhouse Operator Ready To Leap Next Hurdle Ray and June Wadas were high school sweethearts at St. Paul High School in St. Paul, Nebraska. They were married in 1953, a few months after their ... Read More Elizabeth Udell: "I Feel Very Sorry For You." Judge Tyson: My name is Elizabeth Udell, wife of Fred R. Udell who is dying of mesothelioma that was caused due to asbestos because he was trying to ... Read More FRED UDELL: Alive Like many other Californians, Frederick Udell enjoys being outside. He loves to dig and plant in his garden. Fred loves to bowl. He dreamed of ... Read More Public Servant, Patriot And Husband Extraordinaire Doug Walters was an extraordinary man. He first contacted me on July 18, 1994. He was a deputy sergeant with the San Diego Sheriff's Department. ... Read More He Makes You Want To Try Hard To Live In June of 1997, Frank Dens began to have difficulty breathing. He felt a deep pain on his right side accompanied with a nagging, aching cough. A ... Read More Hope For a Family Mr. Russell Denton is a 73 year old retired warehouse man, Navy boiler operator and shipyard worker who was diagnosed in May of 1998 with malignant ... Read More Dr. Cameron Pleased With Post-Surgery Progress Roger Fluegel and his wife June have been married for forty years. Together they have raised two children and they are blessed with three happy ... Read More Served His Country, Family And Community With Pride And Honor Martin Tutt was a hard-working dedicated man. A loving husband and father of three (3) children, he was also respected by his co-workers. Martin Tutt ... Read More Patient Relieved To Be Eligible For Pleurectomy Gene was in the United States Navy from 1956 until 1978. Gene served on board several ships including the USS Intrepid, USS Midway, USS Coral Sea, USS ... Read More HMO Thwarts Treatment Plan Mark Stewart grew up in Great Falls, Montana. At the age of 17, Mark enlisted in the U.S. Navy with his older brother. Mark did his basic training in ... Read More Bill Powell - A Celebration Bill's memorial was a celebration, both sad and joyous, of a wonderful man, full of life, intelligence and good humor. A man who stayed true to ... Read More 49 Year Old Executive With Mesothelioma Bill Powell is 49 years old and a former Vice President at Visa International in Foster City, California. He was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1950. ... Read More Mesothelioma Does Not Respect Fame Or Fortune - Steve McQueen Steve McQueen will always be remembered for the cool characters he played in such movie classics as The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles, Bullitt, The ... Read More Wife Donates Legal Settlements To MARF A strong man who loved nature, at 68-years-old Hans Hoffacker was equally comfortable trekking with Masai tribesman during a safari in East Africa, or ... Read More The EPP To Eradicate Mesothelioma Tom Hazen is a 58-year-old senior manager within the medical instruments industry (specializing in dental, ophthalmic and surgical lasers) who was ... Read More To Fight Peritoneal Mesothelioma At 75, Salvatore Pisciotta sits perfectly erect, with a dancer's awareness of his own body. He is poised and at ease at the same time, and very ... Read More Artist Struck Down Too Soon George Baker was a sixty-six (66) year old Professor of Fine Arts at the Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Diagnosed in March of 1997, he ... Read More The Susie Goodman Story In the summer of 1998, 40 year old Susie Goodman decided to give up a 15-year career as a legal assistant specializing in large, complex litigation ... Read More All State Half-Back Finishing Strong Wayne Lenhart is a 64 year-old retired sheetmetal worker and small business owner who was diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma in September ... Read More Garden Of Memory: The Story Of Sam And Doris Silvestro Still virile at the age of 74, Salvatore "Sam" Silvestro was diagnosed with right-sided malignant pleural mesothelioma on June 29, 2001. Sam ... Read More Medical Brick Wall In January of 2001, 37-year-old Bill Hicks stopped at Gemtree Jewelers in Fallbrook, California. His wife, Mojgan, had wandered over there sometime ... Read More Mesothelioma Curtails Dreams Susan MacDonald is a 62 year-old general manager of a senior citizen's condominium association. She worked full-time and enjoyed tennis, golf and ... Read More Mesothelioma Disrupts Carefully Planned, Beautiful Lives After 26 years in the corporate world, Ron Simkins retired early so that he and his lovely wife Janet could travel, spend more time with their ... Read More Golf Enthusiast Finds Unexpected Hazard Barry Koppel was born in 1944 and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1966 with a degree in finance and ... Read More The Ultimate Oppressor Jack Jensen has looked danger in the eye before. In 1979, he went to work as a United Nations (UN) administrator of a refugee camp on the Cambodian ... Read More Wife And Mother Confronts Curse Of Father's Clothes Many years ago, when Annette Skelton was a child, her father worked around asbestos and carried the poisonous dust home on his clothes and hair. ... Read More Contractor Chooses Surgery After undergoing a series of tests on fluid and tissue removed from his chest last year, 65 year-old Benny Sims was diagnosed with malignant pleural ... Read More Mesothelioma Shatters American Dream Eduardo Sanchez was born and raised in Guatemala. In 1963, he moved to the United States in search of a better life. He found steady work in the Los ... Read More Salesman Chooses Life-Extending Surgery Fred Bynder is a 67-year-old who is retired from a long and successful sales career. All his life, Fred was extremely active. For 17 years, while his ... Read More Vow To Return To The Weight Room For George Lachapelle, life has always been simple. Family first. Work hard. Serve your country. Honor your creator. Take care of your body. Solve ... Read More Contractor Builds His Treatment Plan Don and Peggy McShane were living the good life. After a long and successful career building houses in Southern California, Don had begun to enjoy the ... Read More "Macho Italian" Battling Peritoneal Mesothelioma Paul Coppola is a 63-year-old retired inspector and supervisor in the aviation industry and a former Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marines Corps. Paul ... Read More The Terry McCann Story Terry McCann had always been trim, fit and upbeat. A former not-for-profit executive associate who grew up in Chicago, Illinois, Terry is renown for ... Read More Mesothelioma Fighter Aims To Get Back On The Bike Albert Bercher and his wife of 50 years, Carolyn, were living out their "golden years" in Huntington Beach, determined to enjoy every second ... Read More Beating Mesothelioma For The Many Women In His Life You instantly notice John McNamara when he walks into a room. A burly figure, with a grayish beard and ruddy cheeks, John is the spitting image of ... Read More Clinical Psychologist Tries To Hold On To Hope Dr. Saeed Behshid is a 70-year-old clinical psychologist who in 1961, moved from his home in Iran to the hustle and bustle of New York City. A highly ... Read More Overcoming Setbacks to Obtain Second Opinion And Surgery Los Angeles was booming, and in1955 Barbara Harris began her career in real estate. By 1961 she had acquired several high-rise commercial buildings as ... Read More Energetic Mother Fought Mesothelioma Shelley Ketchum was a kind and compassionate woman who always put others before herself. She was a loving daughter, wife, and mother throughout her ... Read More Motors Away From Mesothelioma Forty-seven beautiful years of marriage. Four loving children. Nine grandkids and four great-grandchildren who think Grandpa hung the moon. Meet Tony ... Read More Standing Strong Against Mesothelioma All Systems Go! In one hour, 68 year-old Kermit Kelley was about to undergo life-altering surgery. It was nine a.m. in the pre-op staging area at ... Read More Nothing Can Keep Him From Traveling The Globe Jan and Erwin Bergquist are world travelers. Even though Erwin was diagnosed with mesothelioma, he doesn't hesitate to packs his bags ready to ... Read More Lifelong Footballer Refuses To Let Mesothelioma Score David Theobold is a 50 year-old machinist supervisor who works in Anaheim, California. An affable Englishman with an infectious smile and engaging ... Read More Son Of A Union Ironworker Thriving After Pleurectomy Edward 'Ed' Guerra was one of five children of a union ironworker. Born and raised in San Francisco, California. Ed saw firsthand the benefits ... Read More California Cyclist Pushes Back Against Mesothelioma John Russell was born September 6, 1935, in Chicago. His father worked as a retail manager for Florsheim Shoes in Chicago, just around the corner from ... Read More Ambushed By The Asbestos Industry Local Frontiers Ambushed by the Asbestos Industry By Paul Zygielbaum, MS ****** My battle against malignant peritoneal mesothelioma (MPM) began during ... Read More Buyer Beware: What The Asbestos Companies Don't Tell You The medical literature often repeats the statistic that 80% of all mesotheliomas diagnosed in the U.S. are caused by asbestos. The other 20%? It's ... Read More Beach Babe Keeping Her Cool WIth Cryoablation Dolores Luebke is a 58 year-old mother and recent grandmother living in the idyllic seaside village of San Clemente, California with her husband Kurt, ... Read More Corporate Executive Lives Over Two Years After Diagnosis He was 44 years old, he was physically fit, he was active in his community, he was an active participant in his parish and he was a highly intelligent ... Read More A Life Spent Beating Bullies With Strength, Honor And Kindness As a teen in Oxfordshire, England, 70 year-old Terry Latham excelled in sports. “I was tall and tough,” he recalls with a grin. “I ... Read More Forensic Scientist Blazes Own Trail Towards A Cure Dennis Harline, 56-year-old forensic scientist, husband and father of three, began a journey early this year in search of a cure for his mesothelioma. ... Read More The Force In Bob Vitale Remains Strong “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to ... Read More On The Fast Track For Meso Treatment Walter “Wally” Nielsen and his lovely wife, Arleen, sit surrounded by comfort and beauty – testaments to their hard work and ... Read More Success Makes Its Own Luck Martha Munoz is a 71 year-old retired social worker who lives with her husband Art in Orange County, California. Martha and Art have five children and ... Read More Lung Sparing Surgery Is The Way To Go Claudine Sangre is a 79 year-old retired school teacher who was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma in August of 2011. Her long path leading to her ... Read More Business Owner Finds His "Guardian Angels" Bob Waniss is a 60 year-old business owner who resides in La Habra, California with his wife Sally. Married since 1980, they have three children and ... Read More Steady Pace to Out-Run Mesothelioma When Sylvia Ramirez was 17 years old, she moved to Southern California from Mexico with her family. After working a few factory jobs, she began her ... Read More HVAC Service Manager Traces His Treatment Gerald “Gerry” McCarthy grew up in Brooklyn, New York with five siblings in the same house his father, a New York policeman, had grown up ... Read More Mesothelioma Patient Coping With A New Reality Sometimes Arlene Delman still sees glimmers of her previous life when she least expects it. Like when a stranger pays her a compliment on her ... Read More One Year Meso Free Jerry Buck is a handsome and charming man who looks at least 10 years younger than his age of 77. Jerry and his wife Joyce of 56 years moved with ... Read More Race Car Enthusiast Vows To Forever Keep His Spirit Alive The town of Ahwahnee, California is just twenty-five miles from the entrance of Yosemite National Park, covers an area of just 10 square miles and is ... Read More Mother Of Two Keeps Forging Ahead Tammy Frank and her husband Mike are two young entrepreneurs from Acworth, Georgia who have been married for fourteen years and are the proud parents ... Read More Marathon Man Prepares For The Race Of His Life Since 1989, David and Sandy have been summer caretakers of a unique California relic: the historic Hodges Cabin in the Trinity Alps Wilderness, near ... Read More 33-Year-Old Mother Air Lifted To Dr. Taub In NYC Laura Wright is a young, vibrant thirty-three (33) year old housewife who resides with her husband and two children in Phoenix, Arizona. Laura was ... Read More Ex-Marine Back On His Feet In December of 1998, 67 year old Bulan "BJ" Weech developed a harsh cough that continued for the next several months. At first, BJ thought ... Read More Gaining Strength With Lovastatin William "Bill" Dunn, a 68-year-old husband, father of four, grandfather to two and Navy veteran, was diagnosed with malignant pleural ... Read More Mesothelioma Can't Keep A Good Man Down Irrepressible 72 year-old Ted Hartley Bishop, who bears a passing resemblance to the late actor and director John Huston, loves exotica, and life, ... Read More "Don't Give Up!" Jerry and Nancy Sheehy have three words for anyone dealing with mesothelioma: "DON'T GIVE UP". And after all they have been through, ... Read More The Power Of Two Warriors Marty Schwarting, 73, stands 6-2 and weighs 130 pounds. The mesothelioma tumor inside his chest has compressed a lung and sapped much of his physical ... Read More Third Year of Remission and Still Counting Gary Cooper has always been an active guy with lots of pep and vigor. Born in 1941 in Pueblo, Colorado, he was the youngest of five siblings and grew ... Read More CHARLES TALBERT: Taking Charge These are desperate times for asbestos defense lawyers. We are accustomed to fending off the usual boilerplate motions and briefs that typically get ... Read More Avid Outdoorsman Battles His Mesothelioma Ralph Dale was a 72-year-old retired engineer and construction supervisor who lived in Ketchikan, Alaska. Since his sophomore year in high school, ... Read More Life And Marriage After Mesothelioma Horace Horton is a 71-year-old retired mainte-nance worker and businessman who was diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma in August 2001. ... Read More Determined To Live Tom Morgan is a 58 year-old maintenance superintendent, Navy veteran and former construction worker who was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma on ... Read More