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Our specialist lawyers focus on personal injury compensation and have significant experience in representing those with an asbestosis claim. Our asbestos related disease and mesothelioma solicitor specialists guarantee that your claim will be risk-free and conducted on a no win no fee basis, meaning you will not have to fund or finance your claim or pay expenses as it proceeds. Any compensation won is yours. We take no costs or deductions and whether you win or lose there will be no charge. On submitting your details a member of the Law Society Panel of personal injury experts, will call to give you free advice, without obligation, on how you can go about making a compensation claim.

Exposure to this mineral can cause mesothelioma which is a very serious but also very rare form of cancer in which malignant cells develop in the abdomen or lining of the chest. After exposure to asbestos, which can be very brief, the cancer develops and progresses beyond the chest lining to lymph nodes and may also affect the heart, chest wall, the diaphragm, and a range of other organs and tissues. This aggressive cancer is classified as `dose responsive', meaning that a person is more likely to develop it, the longer they have been exposed to its cause. Victims may have been exposed to asbestos many years before the cancer develops. The average time period is 30 years, although cases may also arise between fifteen years or over forty years after exposure. Our mesothelioma solicitor experts have great experience in dealing with this type of claim.

Asbestosis is not cancerous, but is still a very troublesome and sometimes fatal disease. It is caused by fibres becoming lodged in the lungs which create scar tissue affecting the lung's capacity for oxygen. Its symptoms progress over time, and tend to cause severe shortness of breath, tiredness, chest pain, and may cause heart problems in the long-term. Like mesothelioma it tends to occur many years after exposure to asbestos, often after 15 years or more. The extent of exposure affects the probability that someone is likely to contract the disease. There is no treatment or cure for the disease.

Exposure to these fibres may also cause pleural plaques, a non-cancerous condition in which the thin membranes lining the chest cavity scar over. Pleural plaques refers to localised thickening of the lung's lining, while `diffuse pleural thickening' refers to broader thickening.

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