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• Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 144
  Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a rare disease in which cancer cells develop in the protective sac covering the lungs. The main risk factor for this condition is exposure to asbestos. Possible signs include shortness of breath and pain under the rib cage. It can be difficult to distinguish between malignant pleural ...
  20 hours ago

• Mesothelioma Study Finds Success in Trimodality Therapy

  
  Asbestos and Mesothelioma News — Authority: 126
  Recently published in the medical journal Lung Cancer , a clinical trial on trimodality therapy for mesothelioma found the combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy (radiation) to improve traditional survival rates among malignant pleural mesothelioma patients. The clinical trial included 35 participants ...
  2 days ago

• What You Need To Know About Lung Cancer

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 144
  Cancer is a disease in which certain body cells dont function right, divide very fast and produce too much tissue that forms a tumor. A leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women is probably lung cancer. This is the number one cause of cancer deaths surpassing breast cancer as the leading cause of deaths in ...
  4 days ago

• Malignant Mesothelioma

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 144
  Malignant mesothelioma is a rare disease that occurs when cancerous cells develop in the mesothelium, a thin membrane covering different organs in the body. In most cases, it affects the pleura (the thin layer of tissue that lines the chest cavity and covers the lungs). The biggest risk factor involves exposure to ...
  4 days ago

• Mesothelioma Survival Rate

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 144
  The mesothelioma survival rate refers to the percentage of people with a certain type and stage of the cancer who survive for a specific period of time after their diagnosis. Most statistics focus on the 5-year survival rate. The overall 5-year relative mesothelioma survival rate for 1998-2002 was approximately 9 ...
  1 week ago

• Mesothelioma Prognosis

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 144
  A prognosis is a medical opinion as to the likely course and outcome of a disease. Factors that affect the prognosis for mesothelioma include the tumor size, the amount of fluid in the chest or abdomen, and whether the tumor can be completely removed. The doctor will also consider statistics from hundreds or thousands ...
  1 week ago

• Mesothelioma Researchers Find Biological Marker to Help Diagnose Malignant Mesothelioma

  
  Asbestos and Mesothelioma News — Authority: 126
  Turkish researchers have recently identified a biological marker known as D2-40 to be helpful in distinguishing malignant mesothelioma from pulmonary adenocarcinomas. Because pulmonary adenocarcinoma, malignant mesothelioma and benign mesothelioma have great resemblance to one another under a microscope, medical ...
  1 week ago

• Mesothelioma Research

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 144
  Scientists conducting research on mesothelioma are studying new drugs, new combinations of chemotherapy, and combinations of chemotherapy and radiation therapy before and after surgery. Other research is being conducted to assess the effectiveness of biological therapy in treating mesothelioma. People who join ...
  1 week ago

• Mesothelioma Diagnosis

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 144
  Making a diagnosis of mesothelioma is often difficult, because the symptoms seen with this disease are similar to those of many other medical conditions. In order to make a diagnosis, a doctor will review the patients medical history, conduct a physical exam, and recommend specific tests and procedures to confirm the ...
  1 week ago

• New Mesothelioma Test Effective at Predicting Which Patients Will Benefit from Surgery

  
  Asbestos and Mesothelioma News — Authority: 126
  Researchers at the Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts have developed and tested a gene ratio test that helps predict which pleural mesothelioma patients will benefit from surgical procedures and trimodality therapy (multiple modes of therapy). The test, which analyzes relative expression levels of ...
  1 week ago

• Will Mesothelioma risk in shipbreaking decline?

  
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  Will Mesothelioma risk in shipbreaking decline? We recently reported that international meetings were going on to discuss how to decrease the health and environmental risks associated with shipbreaking. Because of the large quantities of asbestos that were used on many older ships, malignant mesothelioma is a ...
  1 week ago

• Mesothelioma Treatment: Higher Doses of Radiation Found to be Beneficial

  
  Asbestos and Mesothelioma News — Authority: 126
  According to Australian researchers at the Austin Health Centre in Victoria, new radiation techniques may improve the life expectancy of mesothelioma patients. Throughout the past seven years, Dr. Malcolm Feigen, a radiation oncologist, has been developing new mesothelioma treatment methods involving ...
  1 week ago

• Mesothelioma Pain

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 144
  For some people with mesothelioma, pain can result from the tumor itself or from treatment for the disease. In most cases of mesothelioma, pain can be relieved using medications, alternative treatments (such as acupressure), or both. Other options for controlling pain include radiation therapy and a nerve block. ...
  1 week ago

• Mesothelioma Study Finds Optimal Treatment Approach for Peritoneal Mesothelioma

  
  Asbestos and Mesothelioma News — Authority: 126
  A study recently published in the European Journal of Surgical Oncology found cytoreductive surgery followed by intraperitoneal chemotherapy to be most effective at treating peritoneal mesothelioma. Caused almost exclusively by asbestos exposure, peritoneal mesothelioma is an extremely rare cancer that is very ...
  1 week ago

• Mesothelioma Treatment Improved with Addition of Sirolimus

  
  Asbestos and Mesothelioma News — Authority: 126
  Researchers at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts have found that adding sirolimus to chemotherapy with cisplatin was more effective at treating mesothelioma than with cisplatin alone. Sirolimus, which is also known as rapamycin, is an immunosuppressant drug traditionally used to prevent ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mesothelioma

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 144
  Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer affecting the mesothelium, which is a membrane that covers and protects most of the internal organs of the body. In most cases, it begins in the pleura (the lining around the lungs) or peritoneum (the lining around the abdomen). The cancer is typically caused by asbestos exposure. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mesothelioma Treatment: Imaging Scans May Improve Radiation Therapy

  
  Asbestos and Mesothelioma News — Authority: 126
  A study recently published in the medical journal Radiation Oncology compared the use of imaging scans for their effectiveness at improving radiation therapy planning in pleural mesothelioma patients. Researchers found that co-registered PET and CT scans produced better results than CT scans alone. Both CT (computed ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mesothelioma Research

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 144
  Scientists conducting research on mesothelioma are studying new drugs, new combinations of chemotherapy, and combinations of chemotherapy and radiation therapy before and after surgery. Other research is being conducted to assess the effectiveness of biological therapy in treating mesothelioma. People who join ...
  2 weeks ago

• What You Need To Know About Lung Cancer

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 144
  Cancer is a disease in which certain body cells dont function right, divide very fast and produce too much tissue that forms a tumor. A leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women is probably lung cancer. This is the number one cause of cancer deaths surpassing breast cancer as the leading cause of deaths in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mesothelioma research funding applications increased dramatically in 2009

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation released information indicating that the number of applications to fund mesothelioma research has increased dramatically since 2000. In 2000, only seven applications were filed to obtain funding for malignant mesothelioma research, but 56 applications were filed in 2009 ...
  3 weeks ago

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