NEWS | Chemical in Wine May Improve Mesothelioma Treatment

There’s new evidence that a compound found in red wine may help improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatment for malignant pleural me...

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NEWS | Mesothelioma Still Carries Heavy Mortality Burden in U.S.

Asbestos exposure cost Americans more than 427,000 years of potential life in the first decade of the new millennium. That figure comes from...

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NEWS | Mesothelioma Claims Another American Actor

Another American actor has died of malignant mesothelioma. Veteran character actor Ed Lauter, who worked with such prominent names as Clint ...

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NEWS | Micro-RNAs May Offer New Way to Fight Mesothelioma

Scientists at one of the world’s top mesothelioma research centers, the Asbestos Diseases Research institute in Sydney, Australia, say that ...

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NEWS | Study Confirms Firefighters at Elevated Risk for Mesothelioma

A 5-year National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) study of U.S. firefighters is the first to confirm what has long been...

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NEWS | Value of Mesothelioma Surgery Challenged for Healthy Patients

New research conducted in Italy and presented at the 15th World Conference on Lung Cancer in Sydney, Australia suggests that mesothelioma su...

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NEWS | Repeat HIPEC Improves Mesothelioma Survival

If one cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC procedure for mesothelioma is good, subsequent treatments may be even better. That is the central mes...

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NEWS | Spanish Mesothelioma Deaths Likely to Continue for Decades

New research in Spain suggests that mesothelioma deaths will continue in the country until the “last surviving member” of the group of peopl...

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NEWS | Doctors Describe “Concrete Therapeutic Approach” for Mesothelioma

A team of medical researchers in Italy have achieved what they are calling “excellent” tumor control and survival results in malignant pleur...

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NEWS | Mesothelioma Blood Test May Be Possible

An international team of researchers is studying the proteins found on the surface of cancer cells in an effort to improve mesothelioma diag...

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NEWS | Mesothelioma Victims' Victory in Pennsylvania

Workers and their families have won a victory in Pennsylvania after the state Supreme Court ruled that they could sue former employers over ...

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NEWS | A Second-Line Option for Mesothelioma?

Although survival was not significantly extended, the chemotherapy drug vinorelbine might be a treatment option for mesothelioma patients wh...

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NEWS | Mesothelioma Nurses Ready for New Cases in Australia

Australia is bracing for an expected new wave of mesothelioma cases in the next decade and the Lung Foundation of Australia is taking action...

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NEWS | Radiotherapy for Mesothelioma: Better But Still Limited

A form of highly-targeted radiation therapy for mesothelioma is better than it used to be, but is still risky. That is the message of a rece...

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NEWS | Teacher’s Diagnosis Highlights Mesothelioma Risk in Schools

A recent mesothelioma diagnosis in the UK once again dramatically highlights the fact that even a small amount of asbestos can be deadly. Si...

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NEWS | Ape Virus Shrinks Mesothelioma Tumors in Lab

A virus that causes leukemia in gibbon apes may have the power to help fight malignant mesothelioma in people. Gibbon ape leukemia virus (GA...

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NEWS | Biomarker May Predict Chemotherapy Response in Mesothelioma

Cancer researchers in Japan say they may have found a way to help predict which mesothelioma patients are most likely to respond well to tre...

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NEWS | Alcoholism Drug Suppresses Mesothelioma Tumors in Mice

A drug approved by the FDA for the treatment of alcoholism appears to have the potential to fight malignant pleural mesothelioma, an aggress...

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NEWS | Low-Dose Gemzar: Cost Effective Alternative for Mesothelioma?

A new study of an alternative form of chemotherapy for mesothelioma finds that it may be a safe, effective, and less expensive treatment opt...

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NEWS | Catheter Metastasis Manageable for Mesothelioma Patients

The largest study yet of mesothelioma patients with metastatic disease along the path of their lung catheters has some reassuring news for p...

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