Learn about mesothelial cells, understand risk factors for mesothelioma, and discover ways to protect yourself from exposures linked to this rare, fast-growing cancer.

Just a few months after giving birth to her first child, Tamron learned she had peritoneal mesothelioma. Tamron’s love for her infant son gave her hope. Read her story.

Paul Kraus had already proven himself to be a survivor by the time he was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma in 1997. Born in a Nazi labor camp in 1944, Paul survived a cross-country escape to Poland with his mother and older brother when he was just a few months old. Four years later, he survived the ocean voyage aboard a refugee ship to Australia where the family started a new life and where he has lived ever since. Unfortunately, that emigration to one of world’s top producers of asbestos during the height of the mineral’s worldwide popularity probably also led to his unexpected diagnosis of mesothelioma almost 50 years later.