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The Kentucky Senate unanimously approved a piece of legislation Wednesday designating Sept. 26 of each year as Mesothelioma Awareness Day throughout the Commonwealth.

The bill, which now moves to the House for consideration, directs the Governor to proclaim Sept. 26 of each year as a day to recognize Mesothelioma and to encourage Kentuckians to support research into effective treatments and early detection methods. Mesothelioma is an incurable cancer closely associated with asbestos exposure

If the House passes the bill, Kentucky would join a number of states that have designated Sept. 26 as Mesothelioma Awareness Day. The date was chosen because it is the wedding anniversary of a Pennsylvania widow who spent many hours making others aware of the disease that claimed her husband’s life.

New York lawyer Joseph Belluck, who represents victims of mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases, praised the vote by the Kentucky Senate and said he hoped the House would pass the bill without delay.

“For too many years, industrial workers including miners and railroad workers in Kentucky and shipbuilders in Virginia, were exposed to asbestos and weren’t informed of the risks,” said Belluck, a partner in Belluck & Fox, a firm nationally-known for asbestos litigation. “Many workers exposed to asbestos in the 1950s and 1960s are still being diagnosed with this terrible disease.”

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