Mass Torts: State of the Art : Mass Torts Lawyer & Attorney : Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease Law Firm : Toxic Torts & Wrongful Death

There are some interesting articles in the scientific literature about a war of which you've likely never heard. It's the one going on inside your body. A war pitting microbe against microbe. A conflict in which chemical warfare, the secretion of toxins, may well result in collateral damage - with the collateral damagee being you and the damage being cancer. More about that in the coming days but for now, here's an article about colon cancer risk and some of the bacteria working night and day to keep you from developing it. Here's the link.

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What is it in cigarette smoke that causes lung cancer? Tar? PNAHs? Exotic isotopes? What about bacteria and fungi? What if they're in part responsible for chronic inflammation associated with lung cancer? It turns out that when you inhale cigarette smoke you invite into your lungs a swarm of nasty germs. Here's a new article that'll introduce you to the issue and lay out the evidence.

Wouldn't it be interesting if there were similar microbes living in and on asbestos fibers? Actually ....

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