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Our Patient Advocates can help guide you or your loved one through the steps to take after a mesothelioma diagnosis. Our team has a combined experience of more than 30 years in assisting cancer patients, and includes a medical doctor, an oncology registered nurse and a U.S. Navy veteran.
Preliminary results of a seven-year study on chemotherapy-induced sensory side effects — usually managed with drugs — show an exercise program tailored for cancer…
Many people newly diagnosed with mesothelioma find themselves overwhelmed with a complex range of thoughts and feelings. After all, it’s not easy to adjust…
Patients with mesothelioma may turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) while weighing their treatment options or when traditional cancer treatments are no…
For the vast majority of mesothelioma patients — the 85 to 90 percent ineligible for potentially curative surgery at diagnosis — chemotherapy is the best…
Today’s approach to diagnosis rarely spots mesothelioma early in its development, when patients are more likely to qualify for the optimal course of cancer…
Earlier this year, I attended the International Mesothelioma Interest Group (iMig) conference in Cape Town, South Africa, and left feeling the future of mesothelioma treatment is bright.
It…
Primary care physicians often send their patients to specialists when they need an expert’s opinion about a condition. But the transfer of medical records…
At the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, we often treat mesothelioma patients whose disease did not respond to conventional therapies offered at other centers. It's what we do.
Moffitt is the…
When I arrived at the Ochsner Cancer Institute in New Orleans at the end of 2009, they were doing only one or two peritoneal mesothelioma cases each year - not very many. It's a rare cancer, and unfortunately,…
