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asbestos mesothelioma: the last gasp
- by: jennifer sexton
- from: the sunday telegraph
- may 20, 2012 12:00am
maryanne gatt’s (left) father john, died only four weeks after being diagnosed with an asbestos related disease and had no time to claim for compensation. picture: rohan kelly source: the sunday telegraph
asbestos disease is a quick killer, snatching its victims in agony within just weeks of diagnosis. but a cruel nsw legal logjam means unless victims lodge a compensation claim in their dying days, their bereaved families are left with nothing. jennifer sexton reports.
when doctors told maryanne gatt her father had mesothelioma, she mouthed to her sister, a nurse, across his hospital bed: “what’s that?”
the diagnosis on christmas eve in 2010, that john gatt had contracted the rampant cancer, came just months after a six-week holiday with his wife, lily, through his birth country of malta, and then greece and italy.
there were few signs on the trip that the cancer was spreading in a thin tissue across the internal organs of this fit 72-year-old. his appetite had waned and he felt a little tired, but had done a lot of walking.
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