Asbestos is a hazardous material that has long been used in a wide variety of industrial, commercial and other applications. In fact, over 300 products have been riddled with asbestos, which can wreak serious havoc on the human body. While asbestos was long prized as an excellent flame retardant, heat and chemical resister, and insulator, it is extremely harmful when invisible asbestos fibers are inhaled or ingested.
In the last two decades of the 20th century, over 600 residents of Missouri died from asbestos related diseases. Of these victims, nearly 400 died from mesothelioma, which is an aggressive cancer that attacks the tissue lining of the heart, lungs, or abdominal cavity. This type of cancer is particularly vicious because it is hard to diagnose, difficult to treat, and often fatal. While such a condition can lie dormant for years or even decades, catching it early is the best way to protect one’s health. Mesothelioma treatment centers, located throughout Missouri and the greater United States, are premium health care facilities equipped to treat diseases caused by asbestos exposure.
Asbestos Risks in Missouri
Power generation plants, chemical industries, motor companies, construction operations, and old buildings are prime sites of potential asbestos poisoning in Missouri and other states. The W.R. Grace & Co.’s Zonolite plant in St. Louis and Mack Truck assembly plants in Missouri are just two examples of major companies that have exposed their workers and other citizens of Missouri to deadly asbestos containing products.
Please contact us if you have developed mesothelioma as a result of asbestos exposure in Missouri. We would be more than happy to explain the legal options available to you.
Missouri Mesothelioma Treatment Centers
The following is helpful contact information about Missouri’s mesothelioma treatment centers. If you feel you may have been exposed to asbestos, you are encouraged to contact on of these centers to learn how to protect your health.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Center for Advanced Medicine
4921 Parkview Place
St. Louis, Missouri 63110
The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital is one of the international leaders for cancer treatment, prevention, research, education and outreach to the community. This is the only comprehensive cancer center in the state to hold the Comprehensive Cancer Center designation from the National Cancer Institute. It also has full membership in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. US News and World Report ranks this center as one of the best in the country.
The Siteman center offers you the expertise of more than 325 Washington University cancer research experts and doctors who provide dedicated care to more than 8000 cancer patients annually. A complete range of the latest, advanced diagnostic treatment services are available for cancer patients with many types of cancer. All of them are cared for in the Center for Advanced Medicine, which is a state of the art outpatient center that first opened in 2001.
Siteman also offers you access to many support services with many satellite facilities located throughout the state.
Scientists and doctors that are affiliated with this cancer center have more than $160 million in annual cancer research as well as training grants. All of the most promising results of cancer laboratory research are incorporated into cancer treatment advances.
Siteman Cancer Center provides the best chemotherapy treatments available today with its medical oncologists, but they also work closely with many other health care providers, including radiation and surgical oncologists, to make sure that you are treated as a patient first and foremost, and appropriately for the type of cancer that you have.
Chemotherapy at Siteman can consist of many different drugs that are provided to you to fight cancer growth. They can be given to you orally, through creams and ointments, or through a vein.
Depending on the type of cancer that you have and its stage, chemotherapy can kill all of the cancer cells in the body, or just ease the symptoms and shrink the tumor.
Some of the most promising forms of chemotherapy only are available in clinical studies, and you are fortunate in that Siteman Cancer Center has the most number of such trials in this area.
Saint Louis University Cancer Center
3655 Vista Avenue
West Pavilion
St. Louis, Missouri 63110
The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital is one of the international leaders for cancer treatment, prevention, research, education and outreach to the community. This is the only comprehensive cancer center in the state to hold the Comprehensive Cancer Center designation from the National Cancer Institute. It also has full membership in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. US News and World Report ranks this center as one of the best in the country.
The Siteman center offers you the expertise of more than 325 Washington University cancer research experts and doctors who provide dedicated care to more than 8000 cancer patients annually. A complete range of the latest, advanced diagnostic treatment services are available for cancer patients with many types of cancer. All of them are cared for in the Center for Advanced Medicine, which is a state of the art outpatient center that first opened in 2001.
Siteman also offers you access to many support services with many satellite facilities located throughout the state.
Scientists and doctors that are affiliated with this cancer center have more than $160 million in annual cancer research as well as training grants. All of the most promising results of cancer laboratory research are incorporated into cancer treatment advances.
Siteman Cancer Center provides the best chemotherapy treatments available today with its medical oncologists, but they also work closely with many other health care providers, including radiation and surgical oncologists, to make sure that you are treated as a patient first and foremost, and appropriately for the type of cancer that you have.
Chemotherapy at Siteman can consist of many different drugs that are provided to you to fight cancer growth. They can be given to you orally, through creams and ointments, or through a vein.
Depending on the type of cancer that you have and its stage, chemotherapy can kill all of the cancer cells in the body, or just ease the symptoms and shrink the tumor.
Some of the most promising forms of chemotherapy only are available in clinical studies, and you are fortunate in that Siteman Cancer Center has the most number of such trials in this area.
The Center for Cancer Care and Research
12855 North Forty Drive
Saint Louis, Missouri 63141
VA Medical Center-Togus
Mesothelioma Treatment Section
L. Herbert Maurer, MD
1 VA Center
Togus, Missouri O4330
The Center for Cancer Care and Research Director, Clinical Research
John Eckardt, MD
12855 North Forty Drive
Suite 200
St. Louis, MO 63141
Veterans Affairs Medical Center-Columbia (Truman Memorial)
Mesothelioma Treatment Section
Michael C. Perry, MD
800 Hospital Drive
Columbia, Missouri 65201
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Mesothelioma Treatment Section
Nancy Barlett, MD
1 Barnes-Jewish Hospital Plaza
Saint Louis, Missouri 63110
St. Louis University
Mesothelioma Treatment Section
Carol Giese, LPN
3655 Vista, 3rd Floor, W. Pavilion,
St. Louis, Missouri 63110
Legal Help Missouri
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