Subic Bay Radiation Cancer Mesothelioma, Thoracic Oncology Program Malignant Mesothelioma

The uss bergall ss 320 was the first us.

What happens if you inhale asbestos dust. Drug trials and procedures. Va disability compensation payments start at 3100 for veterans with mesothelioma or lung cancer caused by asbestos. Sterrett used asbestos in hundreds of components destined for the ships they built for the us navy including sterrett.

This facilitated both use of carrier onboard delivery cod flights to service ships at sea and designation of a cods pilot or co pilot as the. If you a loved one or someone you know served aboard mark or worked on her in a shipyard and has contracted mesothelioma please fill out the form at the. Navy veterans are also entitled to sue private companies where the average mesothelioma settlement pays between 1 million and 14 million.

There is no cure for mesothelioma but common cancer treatments can be used to fight the disease. Inhalation of asbestos is a proven cause of mesothelioma a malignant cancer of the lung. Boilers used to produce the steam necessary to drive the ships turbines were lined with asbestos as a protection against heat damage to the boiler causing it to explode.

After hostilities in vietnam ended brooke performed the normal duties of a ship of its class serving in task groups centered by an aircraft carrier. The site also placed the station closer to the flight line and to shipscustomers in the bay. The navy used more asbestos than any other military branch of the us.

From then until the summer of 1966 interspersed with port visits to hong kong subic bay and yokosuka joseph strauss patrolled waters around the escalating combat zones in viet nam. The men who served aboard the uss besugo and the men and perhaps women who built her may well have been exposed to a dangerous level of asbestos a mineral that was eventually proved to be carcinogenic to humans. This is the apparent cause of the high rate of asbestos related diseases among shipyard workers and navy veterans.

She reached subic bay in october of 1945 where she unloaded her refrigerated cargo and took on more supplies for the forces occupying japan. Navy vessel to be named for the bergall a fish found off the new england coast. Arfcosta subic bay moved to permanent quarters in building 8160 adjacent to the cubi point air terminal.

Including mesothelioma a devastating cancer without cure. Asbestos products were used in both the construction of navy ships and in the ships themselves. Puget sound naval shipyard the builder of uss.

Hundreds of asbestos ship components unfortunately the navys use of fire and friction retardant asbestos in hundreds of its ship components has caused thousands of cases of asbestosis lung cancer and mesothelioma cancer of the tissue lining in. The ship would return to the war several times operating out of subic bay in the philippines.