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Suzanne Dixon, MPH, MS, RDN
Researchers from the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center have published data suggesting oral steroids prior to chemotherapy — to reduce skin reactions — may not be necessary.
Read MoreLearn about the new mesothelioma treatments that doctors are performing in an ongoing effort to improve the lives of mesothelioma patients.
Doctors at the Princess Margaret Cancer Center in Toronto are studying the use of hypofractionated radiation to increase the effectiveness of immunotherapy for patients with mesothelioma. They are expected to…
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Mesothelioma patients undergoing an extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) are twice as likely to die within 30 days — or experience serious complications — than those opting for the pleurectomy and decortication…
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Mesothelioma patients from Brooklyn won’t need to travel far from home anymore to receive specialized care for this rare and aggressive cancer. The Brooklyn Mesothelioma Center has opened. Maimonides Medical…
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A review on targeted therapies for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) provides fresh insight into why this cancer is so difficult to treat and ideas for improving outcomes. “Despite more than…
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Thoracic surgeon and scientist Dr. Prasad Adusumilli at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center believes customized gene therapy will soon change the way pleural mesothelioma is treated. Adusumilli, director of…
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The eighth annual International Symposium on Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Saturday at UCLA will reflect the rapidly evolving philosophy on future treatment of this rare cancer. Change is coming.
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Physicians may soon use artificial intelligence (AI) and medical images to study tumors without a biopsy. The techniques developed to study tumors in this new way are described in the…
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Standard-of-care treatment for patients with pleural mesothelioma may soon include Tumor Treating Fields, a novel therapy involving electric fields that disrupt cancer cell division and inhibit tumor growth.
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Thoracic surgeon Dr. R. Taylor Ripley comes to the Mesothelioma Treatment Center at Baylor College of Medicine with the highest possible endorsement. Dr. David Sugarbaker, the world’s most prominent mesothelioma…
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Jul 14, 2017
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