Pregnant mum's devastating diagnosis after 'paralysing pain' in her chest

Emily-Jane Scandrett, from Staffordshire, has issued an urgent informing amid her gruelling travel with mesothelioma, a uncommon crab which chiefly affects the lining of the lungs

A parent was rocked to beryllium told she has an incurable cancer - aft she started to acquisition a "paralysing pain" successful her chest.

Despite testing, Emily-Jane Scandrett's mesothelioma, a uncommon cancer which chiefly affects the lining of the lungs, went undiagnosed for 17 months. During which time, she was large with her 2nd kid and, months aft welcoming her son, Emily-Jane received the cruel diagnosis.

The 41-year-old pistillate has pleural mesothelioma, an incurable crab astir commonly recovered successful men implicit the property of 75. It's linked to asbestos vulnerability but Emily-Jane, from Tamworth, Staffordshire, does not cognize erstwhile she was exposed to the mineral. However, the mum has asked her erstwhile employers and her aged schools for asbestos reports.

Emily-Jane said: "It's atrocious that determination is asbestos successful our schools, hospitals, offices, adjacent successful our homes and radical inactive cognize truthful small astir it. When I was diagnosed I had ne'er heard of mesothelioma. I'd heard of asbestos, but I don't cognize wherever oregon erstwhile I was exposed to it. There is truthful overmuch much that needs to beryllium done to rise consciousness of the risks of asbestos, and to eradicate it from buildings."

The mum of 2 is present undergoing immunotherapy each 3 weeks to dilatory the dispersed of the illness and prolong her lifespan. She's speaking retired arsenic a caller study states asbestos successful British schools volition pb to hundreds of thousands of radical dying.

More than 90% of schools contain asbestos says the Joint Union Asbestos Committee and teachers and pupils look a “tsunami” of deaths from vulnerability connected a regular basis.

Emily-Jane has chosen to constitute publically astir her diagnosis and attraction connected her Facebook page, and has campaigned and fundraised connected behalf of 2 charities, Mesothelioma UK and Asbestos Support Central England.

In 1 hard-hitting update, she wrote: "Mesothelioma is simply a uncommon cancer. Everyone speechmaking this station and their families person been exposed to the aforesaid risks of breathing successful oregon ingesting asbestos fibres arsenic I person been - immoderate volition already person mesothelioma successful their lungs without knowing it yet!!"

Horrifying statistic amusement that astatine slightest 1,400 teachers and enactment unit on with 12,600 pupils person died since 1980 from mesothelioma, a cancer caused by breathing successful asbestos fibres. And it is believed that galore much volition besides dice implicit the pursuing decades with older buildings containing asbestos crumbling.