The VA Hospital in Maryland has seen plenty of Navy veterans, as the state lies along the Atlantic coast where Navy shipyards and Navy bases proliferated during World War II and still remain today, from Virginia to Connecticut. Navy veterans are very high in the at-risk category for asbestos related diseases.

Every Navy ship commissioned from the 1930s through 1970 and perhaps later was loaded with asbestos insulation in the engine room and throughout the ship. Asbestos was used as fire retardant material in the ship, and both sailors and shipyard workers were exposed to asbestos that was damaged and replaced. Asbestos that is disturbed in that fashion will give off tiny asbestos fibers that can cause asbestosis and mesothelioma cancer.

Today veterans from more recent conflicts face a number of respiratory ailments and perhaps some of them will face malignant mesothelioma in the future. This disease lies dormant for twenty years or more. When the symptoms of chest pain and shortness of breath begin to appear, mesothelioma cancer has taken hold. Visit your VA Hospital in Maryland before that happens to you.

VA Maryland Medical Services

Baltimore VA Medical Center
10 North Greene Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: 410-605-7000 or (800) 463-6295
Fax: 410-605-7901

Perry Point VA Medical Center
Perry Point, MD 21902
Phone: (410) 642-2411
(800) 949-1003
Fax: 410-642-1161

Legal Help for Maryland Veterans

If you are diagnosed with an asbestos related health problem you should also have an experienced attorney who can make sure you are paid any compensation owed to you by the asbestos companies. See your doctor and then give us a call: or complete our short form above. Tens of thousands of Americans have sued the asbestos companies and won settlements - many thousands of those have been veterans.