Center Director, Unversity of Hawaii Cancer Center; Director, Thoracic Oncology Program
Anatomic Pathology
Medical School of Rome
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While researching an article discussing the genetic predisposition for mesothelioma, Carbone traveled to Turkey to view firsthand the erionite-laden buildings and dubbed them "houses of death."
Bio
Michele Carbone, M.D., has traveled the world in search of a better understanding of malignant mesothelioma.
He found it, too.
Carbone, director at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, is a pathologist with a unique perspective of the deadly cancer that is diagnosed in an estimated 3,000 Americans each year.
Carbone has studied the disease in the small villages of Capadoccia, a region in Turkey where people still are dying in alarming proportions from mesothelioma, tracing the epidemic to erionite, a naturally occurring mineral used there for a variety of construction purposes.
It's the same mineral that is prevalent today in the Killdeer Mountains in North Dakota, where it was used to cover miles of roads, driveways and parking lots in the western parts of the state.
There are currently no reported cases of the cancer in North Dakota, but Carbone's findings have prompted closer monitoring by the EPA, a cut-back in the nearby gravel mining and an increased awareness among the population in the area.
Here we have a chance to do something.
Making a difference always has been his goal in studying mesothelioma.
His research team in Hawaii has spent considerable time studying how genes may impact a person's susceptibility to the disease. The team has worked to develop both preventative and therapeutic treatments based on those genetics.
According to the Hawaii Cancer Center, Carbone and his research team have received more than half of all federal funding for mesothelioma. And approximately 90 percent of the mesothelioma-specific funding from the National Cancer Institute goes to them.
Carbone previously worked at the Cancer Center of Loyola University in Chicago, and for the National Institutes of Health, where he studied the pathogenesis of mesothelioma.
Born in Italy, Carbone studied at the Medical School of Rome and is board certified in Anatomic Pathology in both Italy and the United States.
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