According to a recently issued press release of the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (MARF) September 26 Bill by the House of representatives passed the nomination as national mesothelioma awareness day.
The Bill was by Congresswoman Betty McCollum, Minnesota that has personal ties to mesothelioma cancer. Republic McCollum said "in 2000 my friend and predecessor Congressman Bruce Vento was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma." "Despite decades of warnings about the dangers of asbestos too many Americans are still unaware of the disastrous nature of this disease."
Bruce Vento, former Congressman and MARF, Board member died in 2000 after only nine months after his diagnosis. The average mesothelioma is life expectancy for patients between 4 and 18 months.
Beginning of 2005, there has on September 26 mesothelioma awareness day was celebrations and the event has grown nationally each year. H. res (771) Bill which was passed on November 29 is the Senate resolution (S. res. 288), introduced by Senator Patty Murray of Washington and was passed in 2009.
Kathy Wiedemer, Executive Director who there, said: "the passage of H. res." 771 is an important milestone in our struggle to find better treatments and a cure. "Recognition of mesothelioma at national level is in raising awareness and resources, the required, the tragedy of mesothelioma end galvanizing of crucial."
Approximately 2,000 to 3,000 people are diagnosed with mesothelioma in the United States each year. There is no definitive cure for this disease but continued to make progress research efforts.
Learn more about Mesothelioma can be found through the mesothelioma Center.
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