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When asked, “What keeps you up at night?” our partners and associates invariably say, “Our clients.” The stories clients share about their asbestos exposure, which sometimes went on for years, moves us to hold companies accountable for endangering the health and...

For the past 17 years, April 1-7 has been designated Global Asbestos Awareness Week (GAAW), a time to increase awareness of the historic and ongoing dangers of asbestos, preventing future exposure, and advocating for victims around the world. Since 2004, the Asbestos...

Today is International Women’s Day, an observance that began in a handful of countries in the early 1900s as part of campaigns for equal rights and worker protections. Though the day has been marked annually since, and has been associated with labor campaigns like the...

ONCOS-102, an experimental immunotherapy vaccine, showed promising results for malignant pleural mesothelioma patients at the 21-month mark of a clinical trial. Patients receiving ONCOS-102 and chemotherapy had a median overall survival of 20.5 months, compared to a...

The year 2020 will forever be remembered as the year of COVID-19. But while our attention was focused on the coronavirus, the global cancer epidemic quietly increased to 19.3 million cases and 10 million cancer deaths in 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO)...

SWMW Law puts a high priority on putting people first, and in December, attorneys and staff members teamed up with St. Louis-based Food Outreach to do just that. For two days, employees donned their facemasks and joined the dedicated team at Food Outreach to prepare...

A global pandemic is scary enough. If you're suffering from lung cancer, navigating life during COVID-19 can be especially worrisome. In our previous posts, we learned about what asbestos-related cancer is, how life changes after a lung cancer diagnosis, and what to...

Gwendolyn “Gwen” Lones knows a thing or two about survival. Growing up in the Chicago projects, having five children and adopting six more – she felt she could survive anything life threw at her. That was until her husband, Dale, was diagnosed with Stage IV lung...

So far in our Lung Cancer Awareness Month series, we've covered what asbestos-related lung cancer is, as well as what to expect if you or a loved one is diagnosed. This week, we go into what it is like to be a caregiver for someone with asbestos-related lung cancer....

When 56-year-old Tim Thomas was told he had lung cancer, he admits he didn’t react the way most would expect – that was until he looked at his son. “I don’t think I really said anything. I didn’t get emotional; I was just kind of numb and in disbelief. I just kind of...