Home Renovations Can Cause Deadly Cancer: Study

“Many people believe workers are most at risk.  However, from my experience, others who have had this low-dose exposure around the home, have also become ill,” Ahilas said. “For example, in 1970, one of my clients, who was quite young at the time had no exposure to asbestos at the workplace but did hold up six sheets of asbestos while family members cut them. Recently, in her 40s, she was diagnosed with mesothelioma,” she said. While Australia no longer manufactures asbestos and there is of awareness of hazards of the workplace, many homes built between the 1940s and t [READ MORE]