Pakistan May Ban Asbestos to Reduce Mesothelioma
Pakistan may be on the brink of banning the leading cause of mesothelioma. The mineral asbestos, used for decades in various…
Pleurodesis for Mesothelioma: Hard to Predict Success
Pleurodesis is a procedure often used to help relieve some of the symptoms of pleural mesothelioma, but there is still no way…
Mesothelioma Researcher to Be Honored for Service to Society
A researcher whose work led to the development of the only drug approved specifically for the treatment of mesothelioma is being honored…
Orphan Drugs Increase for Mesothelioma
There is some good news for mesothelioma sufferers in a recent report from Thomson Reuters on the orphan drug market. According…
Mesothelioma Risk Created by Careless Thieves
Some thieves in Massachusetts may end up paying with their lives for stealing copper pipes from abandoned buildings. That is…
Long-Term Mesothelioma Survivor Used Heat and Chemotherapy
Patients and families struggling with malignant mesothelioma can take some encouragement from the case of a long-time mesothelioma survivor, published recently in…
New Program May Predict Mesothelioma Radiotherapy Response
Doctors at a cancer research facility in Germany have recently tested a new way to help clinicians plan and predict…
Town’s Asbestos and Mesothelioma Risk Subject of Study
University of Pennsylvania researchers have announced that they will use a $1.2 million National Institutes of Health grant to study…
Genes Predict Mesothelioma Treatment Response
University of Chicago researchers have released the results of genetic studies they hope will shed some light on why some mesothelioma patients…
New ‘Calculator’ May Help Guide Mesothelioma Treatment
An NIH study claims to have found a better way to predict treatment response and survival in peritoneal mesothelioma patients. The information…