Since the death of her son, Liam, almost two years ago, Nicola Anderson hasn’t been able to throw away his toothbrush. His shoes are still there, too.
‘I can’t bring myself to get rid of them,’ she says. ‘I still expect him to walk in through the door.’
Liam was just 20 when he died from mesothelioma, an incurable cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.
He was 17 when his first symptoms appeared; pains in his chest, breathlessness and a build-up of fluid around his heart. His case is one of the youngest on record.
Victims have traditionally developed mesothelioma in their 70s and
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