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A Gold Coast tradie is desperately pleading for anyone who's worked with artificial stone - like cutting kitchen bench tops - to get checked ASAP.

The Big Breakfast spoke exclusively this morning with Shane Parata, brother of Anthony White, who passed away on Saturday due to complications arising from silicosis - an irreversible, deadly disease caused by breathing toxic silica dust found in manufactured stone used for kitchens and bathrooms.

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Doctors have told us silicosis is, at first, a silent killer; they say that by the time a sufferer is feeling short of breath it can be too late, so the advice is to contact Workcover Queensland's respiratory diseases team now.

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