Companies and their lawyers say that the plaintiffs' lawyers bundle a few cases of asbestos-related cancer with hundreds or thousands of claims of asbestosis.

For example, when my brother-in-law was found to have mesothelioma, an asbestos-related cancer, he was told he could expect to live 8 to 12 months.

He had been bedridden for months with an asbestos-related cancer, tethered to machines that kept him alive in the living room.

Environmental pollution has been a problem at the Rochdale factory with acknowledged cases of asbestos-related cancer caused by environmental exposure.

Scien.132:41-44 (1965) (chrysotile is the main cause of asbestos-related cancer)

This work could "break the chain" between initial exposure to the fibers and emergence of asbestos-related cancer 20 to 35 years later, he said.

But asbestos-related cancer generally does not appear for at least 10 years and sometimes much longer after a person has been exposed.

Cordotomy is especially indicated for pain due to asbestos-related cancers such as pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma.

While exposure levels peaked in the 1970s, it takes years for many asbestos-related cancers to emerge.

Then his partner read about a teen-ager who had died of an asbestos-related cancer after being exposed through contact with her father.