Mesothelioma Vaccine Receives Orphan Drug Approval
Mesothelioma patients who are not candidates for surgery may soon have another treatment option. The FDA has granted orphan drug…
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Novel Delivery System Could Make Spice Compound a Viable Mesothelioma Treatment
A team of Italian researchers have developed a delivery system that may one day help more mesothelioma patients benefit from…
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Peritoneal Mesothelioma: Genome Sequencing Paves the Way for Personalized Treatments
Genomic medicine experts in the U.S. and Canada have completed a key step in improving the understanding and treatment of…
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HIPEC Variation May Benefit Frail Mesothelioma Patients
A method of delivering heated chemotherapy drugs to the abdomen after the surgical wound has been closed may produce better…
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When “Breast Cancer” is Actually Mesothelioma
A new case study out of Italy highlights the importance of using all of the available tools – including patient…
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Mesothelioma Prognosis: Some Markers More Useful than Others
Deciding which treatments to try and determining whether they are working are two of the biggest challenges for patients with…
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New Delivery System May Make Popular Mesothelioma Drug More Effective
There is new evidence that an advanced method of delivering medicine directly into diseased cells could help make the world’s…
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Could Deliberate Lung Collapse Make Mesothelioma Procedure Safer?
A group of researchers in the Oxford University Centre for Respiratory Medicine have evidence that, in certain cases,deliberately collapsing a…
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Orphan Drug Approval Could Mean New Mesothelioma Treatment Option
A drug designed to fight cancer by destroying the stem cells that give rise to new cancer cells has been…
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Mesothelioma Patients Live Longer with Multimodal Treatment
Another new study has confirmed that a multimodal approach – in which multiple treatments are used together – is the…