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Cancer is a cruel disease and mesothelioma is one of the cruelest types of cancer known to man. I say that because after reading a personal story about a 73 year old wife and mother of seven children who passed away from mesothelioma, I realized that mesothelioma took her life through second hand exposure to asbestos. According to the National Cancer Institute, mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer in which cancerous cells are found in the mesothelium, a protective sac that covers most of the body’s internal organs. It is a rare type of cancer with only about 2,000 cases recorded in the United States each year.

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