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<body> <p><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="2">Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group (GMAVSG) is a not-for-profit organisation established by asbestos victims to provide advice, information and support for people with asbestos-related diseases. </font> <i><a href="about.htm"><font size="2">(link to About GMAVSG)</font></a></i></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="2">Asbestos diseases now claim about 5,000 lives per year. Some 1,800 people die from mesothelioma each year and the number of people affected by mesothelioma will increase until about 2015.</font></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="2">Many people suffer from asbestos-related diseases which are not life-threatening. For example, the asbestos-related diseases asbestosis and pleural thickening are ‘benign’ diseases: they are not cancers. </font> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="2">This site is dedicated to providing some basic information about asbestos diseases and the benefits, compensation and support that people with asbestos-related diseases, and their families, can get. </font> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="2">If you have an asbestos disease you are entitled to specific benefits because your disease will usually have been caused by your work. You may also be entitled to claim compensation from an employer who exposed you to asbestos, or to state compensation. </font> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="2">We hope that this web site is helpful in identifying your entitlements and to the support and assistance you can get from our support group and other support groups throughout the country. </font> <i> <a href="sources_of_info.htm"><font size="2">(link to Sources of Information)</font></a></i></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="2">Please contact us if you think we could provide more information on this web site for people with asbestos-related diseases. </font> <i> <a href="contact_info.htm"><font size="2">(link to How to contact us)</font></a></i></span></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: Arial">This site has been constructed by John Harte ( Jnr ) in memory of his father John Harte, who died from Mesothelioma, 1st August 2005.</span></font></p> </body>