Treatment & Doctors
MD Anderson Remains Top-Ranked Cancer Center
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Aug 28, 2019
U.S. News & World Report named University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston as the No. 1 Adult Cancer Hospital in America for the fifth consecutive year.
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Cameron Sees No Need for National Mesothelioma Registry
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Jul 25, 2019
Thoracic surgeon Dr. Robert Cameron, a longtime leader in the fight against pleural mesothelioma cancer, believes there is no benefit to establishing a government-funded national registry for the disease.
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Mesothelioma Treatment Guidelines Not Followed Often Enough
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Jun 12, 2019
Too many patients with pleural mesothelioma are going without treatment recommended by National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines, according to a recent study at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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FDA Approves First New Treatment for Mesothelioma in 15 Years
- by Matt Mauney
- Treatment & Doctors
- May 24, 2019
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration on Thursday approved Tumor Treating Fields, a therapy involving electric currents that disrupt cancer cell division and inhibit tumor growth, for the first-line treatment…
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Targeting Blood-Clotting Pathway Improves Mesothelioma Treatment
- by Suzanne Dixon
- Treatment & Doctors
- Mar 5, 2019
A team of researchers at the Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center in Haifa, Israel, and the Langone Medical Center in New York collaborated on research of a common blood-clotting…
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Belgian EPP Study Shows Mesothelioma Surgery Extends Survival
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Mar 4, 2019
Using proper patient selection, doctors in Leuven, Belgium, are extending mesothelioma survival times significantly with the controversial extrapleural pneumonectomy surgery. Despite a growing reluctance to perform the surgery within the…
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Apatinib Case Study Uncovers Potential Mesothelioma Treatment
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Jan 31, 2019
Doctors in China may have uncovered an effective second- or third-line treatment option for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma. Dr. RongQin Meng, an oncologist at 363 Hospital in Cheng Du,…
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Gene-Editing Tool Reverses Cancer Resistance to Chemotherapy
- by Suzanne Dixon
- Treatment & Doctors
- Jan 28, 2019
A team of researchers at the Gene Editing Institute in Newark, Delaware, has successfully treated chemotherapy-resistant lung cancer cells with the CRISPR gene-editing technique. The study was published Dec. 21,…
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Mesothelioma Researchers Seek More Effectiveness from Immunotherapy
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Jan 17, 2019
Novel immunotherapy drugs may be working well for some patients with mesothelioma, but not enough to satisfy Dr. Raffit Hassan at the National Cancer Institute. It’s not even close…
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Congress Funds Feasibility Study for Mesothelioma Patient Registry
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Jan 15, 2019
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health will oversee a study in 2019 to determine the feasibility of establishing the first national mesothelioma patient registry. The $100,000 feasibility study…
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