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…
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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…
