@L-i-am
Sorry to hear that 'load' you carry mate.
It seems big business is too big on 'we can do this' and not big enough on 'should we do this'.
A bit like the micro plastic beads in cosmetics being found in the food chain and now in human bodies.
Some good news is that more and more cancer viarieties are being 'lived' with. I know of two others with prostate cancer who are going to have a so called normal lifespan, they just have to share their carcass with cancer.
Might not be a cure but if it does not prevent us living our lives, it is a fair compromise.
We used a chemical cleaning agent years ago, just plastic gloves and a paper mask (Which had asbestos in them then) and we were told it was fine. By the time I stopped working in hospitals, this agent was only permited to be used in exclusion tanks with hoods and controlled filtered ventilation due to it being carcinogenic. How many more 'problems' which were known then, are we not hearing about.
When I visited the flat I now live in to inspect and sign the contract, I looked at the smashed up tiles on the floor, with dust everywhere and said. "Those things look like asbestos". "No". I had to have a floor laid over the top because haig refused to fix the floor. They have now admited the tiles ARE asbestos and so is the dust that was floating around.
I suppose the fact is that chemicals do not harm people when handled correctly, human ignorance and stupidity do.