mesothelioma

Abestos Related Diseases 

• asbestos-related disease is responsible for the death of one out of every 125 American men over the age of fifty;

• 10,000 Americans die each year, thirty per day, from asbestos diseases;

• between 1979 and 2001, more than 43,000 Americans died from mesothelioma, a type of asbestos cancer; in 1999, there were 2,343 mesothelioma fatalities;

• the national asbestos death rate is increasing; over the next forty years, 100,000 Americans will die;

• asbestos deaths have occurred in each of the fifty states; the death toll is rising in nine of the ten states with the highest number of mesothelioma and asbestosis deaths.