Grant To Help Research Into Mesothelioma
Leeds Today
By Pete Lazenby
New research into finding a cure for an asbestos-linked killer cancer is to be funded by cash raised in memory of a courageous Leeds woman who died of the disease.
The June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund has made a grant of £139,000 to finance research into the cancer mesothelioma at Velindre Hospital at Cardiff University.
Mesothelioma attacks the lining of the lung. It can take 60 years to show itself. Victims usually die within 12 to 18 months of diagnosis.
June Hancock died of mesothelioma in 1997. She was one of hundreds of victims of the J W Roberts asbestos factory at Armley in west Leeds.
The disease also killed her mother. Neither Mrs Hancock nor her mother worked at the factory. They simply lived near the factory, and breathed in asbestos fibres which often covered the streets and homes surrounding it. The factory closed in 1958.
After being diagnosed as having mesothelioma in 1994, Mrs Hancock launched a pioneering claim for compensation against the factory's owners, Turner Newall. She survived long enough to win her case, opening the door for hundreds more claims.
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