Asbestos Cancer: One Man's Experience is a composite of information about the history of and the diseases caused by exposure to asbestos. Interwoven with a personal story, it includes the illness and subsequent death of the author's father due to his asbestos exposure in an industrial setting. The author highlights asbestos as a carcinogen in our environment which was widely used without first being fully tested. From Chapter 19: Before this cancer occurred in my father, I had never known that there were different diseases caused by exposure to asbestos. In particular, I had never heard of the cancer called mesothelioma...The time between initial exposure to asbestos and the diagnosis of disease is rarely less than twenty years and averages forty years...Case studies have indicated that only a brief contact can cause cancer decades later.
From the Author
During my father's illness, I found a lack of information about asbestos disease in general, especially that written in layman's terms. I wanted to personalize the story of asbestos which, despite a curb in usage, continues to cause health problems because of its latent health effects and because of the aging structures in which asbestos was a building material. I believe asbestos is a prime example of an environmental carcinogen which affects human health. The personal side of the story tells how our family dealt with an incurable cancer.
About the Author
Ms. Grove has been an educator in the public schools for twenty-five years. As a teacher, she became aware of asbestos because of its presence in school buildings where she taught. Little did she know that asbestos would take on a personal dimension in 1989 when her father, a 30-year employee of a General Motors Foundry, was diagnosed with an asbestos-caused cancer. The author's biography is currently listed in Marquis Who's Who in
- Title: Asbestos Cancer: One Man's Experience
- Author: Myrna Grove
- Price: $74.05
- Hardcover: 187 pages
- Publisher: Christopher Pub House (March 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0815804989
- ISBN-13: 978-0815804987
- Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches